kenya population census
A population census is the process of collecting. Compiling, evaluating, analysing and disseminating demographic, economic. And social data of people in a country or delimited part. The objectives are to collect demographic and socio—economic data required for decision making. And to ascertain size, composition, spatial distribution, levels of fertility, mortality and migration status.
The Kenyan government conducts a population census every ten years.In the previous census the population conducted on the year 2009 was over 38.6 million people. This figures rose from the one collected in the year 1999.
A census also establishes the rate and pattern of urbanisation. Levels of education in the population, deployment of the labour force. Types and distribution of persons with disabilities and housing conditions and availability of household amenities.
Most of the people are the youth which has dominated these figures. From the demographic point of view the number of female is higher than that of male.
The government uses the collected data to determine the population and for planning purposes. Furthermore, the government utilizes the data in the allocation of revenues, prioritizing areas with a high population.
The Government spent Sh8.4 billion ($105 million) on the census and funded 95 per cent of the cost, with only 5 per cent coming from development partners. The 239,807 census personnel were paid a total of Sh5 billion ($62.5 million) from the money allocated for the census. Field personnel were 5,788 senior supervisors, 22,323 supervisors, 111,697 enumerators and 100,00() village elders. They used twelve million questionnaires for the census.
In matters religion, Kenya has 9.01 million Catholics, 18.3 million Protestants, and 4.5 million other Christians, 4.3 million Muslims, 53,393 Hindus and 635,352 traditionalists. People who profess other religions are 557,450, those who profess none are 922,128 and 61,000 responded that they did not know.
In terms of the provinces, Rift Valley had the largest population at 10,006,805. It was followed by Nyanza at 5,668,123, Eastern 5,442,711, Central 4,383,743, Western 4,334,281, Coast 3,325,307, Nairobi 3,138,369 and North Eastern at 2,310,757.
