JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON THE 2019 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS ON THURSDAY 29th AUGUST 2019 AT THE GOVERMENT MEDIA CENTRE, NAIROBI

Thank you fellow Kenyans, for your continued cooperation and participation in the Big Count.

The progress so far is encouraging, and we are confident that the Count will have registered universal coverage by Saturday, 31st August 2019.

We are now on the home stretch. We still have three more days left
– the rest of toda
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JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON UPDATE OF THE 2019 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS ON SUNDAY 25thAUGUST 2019 AT THE GOVERMENT MEDIA CENTRE, NAIROBI

Fellow Kenyans, thank you for your participation on the Day One of the Big Count. The first day of the census exercise was largely successful. We are encouraged by the progress and can confirm that exercise went on smoothly. The enthusiasm and eagerness to be counted was profound.

We thank business owners for heeding the Government’s ca
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Press Statement

The Government wishes to inform the general public that preparation for the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census (KPHC) has been concluded. This includes the successful listing exercise to familiarize with the areas of enumeration and households. The enumerators, content supervisors, ICT supervisors and all other ke
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Census 2019 Frequently Asked Questions

What’s a population census?

A population census is the process of counting all people in a country at a specified time. The process of capturing census information is referred to as enumeration. Census is the total process of collecting, compiling, evaluating, analysing, and publishing demographic, social, and/or econom
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2019 Census Backgrounder

Kenya is set to have its sixth national Census since independence on the night of 24th August 2019. The previous population Censuses were held in 1948, 1962 (pre-independence), 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 and 2009. The practice of counting the population dates back to ancient times. Historical records show that ancient rulers needed to count their pe
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