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Population and Housing Census

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A population census is the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analyzing and publishing or otherwise disseminating demographic, economic, and social data pertaining, at a specified time, to all persons in a country or in a well delimited part of a country.

Overview

International standards observed: 2009 Census guided by UN Principles & Recommendations for 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses
Legal Framework provided through a gazette notice in August, 2008
Cartographic mapping for the whole country created nearly 100,000 Enumeration areas
Pilot Census conducted successfully in August 2008

Resources

Budget: Ksh. 8.4 billion; Government funded 95%
More than half (Ksh.5.0 billion) paid to census personnel
Field personnel

Senior Supervisors: 5,788
Supervisors: 22,323
Enumerators: 111,696
Village elders: 100,000
Questionnaires: 12 million

Challenges

Competing national interests such as famine, drought, resettlement of IDPs
Insecurity concerns
Post-election violence disrupted mapping activities;
Complex logistics for enumeration of Pastoralists communities required more resources
Creation of new districts raised the census budget
Cash-flow problems

Snapshot Results
Population	Education	Water
Sanitation	Disability	Livestock Population
Ownership of Household Assets	Religious Affiliation	Ethnic Affiliation