This archive report was first published on 23 August 2019.
KNBS Assures of No Data Duplication in Census Exercise ¶
Published on August 23, 2019, at 5:57 PM
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has assured Kenyans that there will be no data duplication in the census exercise that starts on Saturday.
KNBS Director General Zachary Mwangi said enumerators will only be taking data of the people who have spent the night at the household.
He explained that parents will be asked how many children they have, but they will also be asked where the children are. Those who are within a household will have their details captured.
On fertility, KNBS clarified that they will not be checking on the ability to have babies, but rather on how many live births a woman has had.
KNBS also discouraged people from traveling to their rural homes to be counted.
Enumerators will count special categories of persons, including those on transit, in hotels, and institutions, as long as they are within the borders of Kenya on the census night.
Any visitor who will be present in a household on the night of August 24 will be enumerated together with the family unit.
The Director General said that the ongoing process of pre-enumeration listing of households ends on Friday evening.
Enumerators will be accompanied by village elders, and the public is urged to cooperate and support them in the exercise.
The census enumeration is done at night because it is easier to remember where one spent a night.
Visitors in the country will be counted regardless of how long they have been in the country or how long they plan to stay.
However, Kenyan residents who will be out of the country on the census night will not be counted, but information on persons who have migrated in the last 15 years will be recorded.
KNBS Population and Social Statistics Director MacDonald Obudho noted that the conventional household population will be regulated from 6 pm, and the process will continue during the day in the next days until the end of the process.
Government Spokesman Cyrus Oguna encouraged people to stay at home so as to enable an effective enumeration process.
Individuals traveling will be counted during the journey in order to ensure everyone is counted.
This will be the first-ever digital census since the constitution was introduced in 2010, with all data expected to be captured using a 7-inch tablet.
