The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is a department in
Kenya
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's Ministry of Planning which collects and compiles regular cross-sectoral data for the government. The Bureau was established through the
Statistics Act of 2006
Statistics (from German: ''Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industr ...
and initiated in February 2007.
The office places staff in other departments of the Kenya Government to collect data.
The headquarters is in
Herufi House in Nairobi.
Programmes
Kenya Population and Housing Census
In part, the National Bureau of Statistics oversees the Kenya Population and Housing Census, which occurs every ten years.
The most recent census was in 2019, and documents the population of country.
An audit by the Auditor General's office published in 2021 found that half of the KSh 18.5 billion budget of the
Kenya Population and Housing Census The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is a department in Kenya
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for the 2019 census, could not be accounted for.
National Sampling Survey and Evaluation Programme
The National Sampling Survey and Evaluation Programme is a household data collection program.
References
External links
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics homepage
Government agencies of Kenya
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