This archive report was first published on 21 August 2019.
As Kenya prepares for its sixth national census on August 24, 2019, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has engaged a large number of staff, including 138,572 enumerators, 22,268 content supervisors, and 2,467 ICT supervisors. To ensure a smooth exercise, KNBS has provided guidelines on how to identify census enumerators.
According to KNBS, enumerators will have official identification cards with the KNBS, census, and government logos, displaying their name and ID number. They will also wear branded orange and maroon reflector jackets for ease of identification. These jackets will bear the government (Kenyan coat of arms) and census logos at the front on the right and left side respectively, as well as the census motto 'Jitokeze Uhesabike' at the back.
Additionally, enumerators will be accompanied by village elders, leaders of residence associations, and in certain cases, assistant chiefs who are well known by the heads of households. They will also have gadgets, specifically black Computer-Aided Personal Interviewer (CAPI) tablets bearing the KNBS logo at the back, which will be used to capture census data electronically.
KNBS has also urged that the number written on the door or at any visible place on the structure to indicate that enumeration has been conducted should not be erased, at least until the entire census exercise is complete. If there is no structure, a structure numbering card will be issued to the household after enumeration.
As far as data security is concerned, KNBS says all information collected will be confidential as provided for by The Statistics Act 2006. All census officials will swear an 'Oath of Secrecy' as embodied in the Act, which forbids them from divulging information collected to unauthorized persons.
It is worth noting that before the material day, there will be a census rehearsal where residents and enumerators will be able to familiarise themselves with the exercise.
Published on August 21, 2019, at 15:30.
