The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is undertaking the third Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey across the country.
The exercise began on July 16, 2025, and will run up to July 2026.
KNBS enumerators are moving across sampled households in villages to collect data that will inform the Consumer Price Index and other key socio-economic indicators, including poverty, inequality, and national accounts.
The statistics will among other things be used to measure, monitor, and analyze progress made in improving the living standards of the population.
Kenya carried out the first household budget survey in the 2005/2006 financial year, with the second one taking place in the 2015/2016 financial year before the current one.
The exercise is typically undertaken every 10 years.
In Busia County, a KNBS statistician Janet Nyanchama said enumerators are covering four villages per month, with a target of 48 villages in 12 months.
Kong’rang’ule village in Amagoro is one of the villages selected for the exercise, with enumerators expected to collect data within seven days starting this week.
In the village, the enumerators will visit sampled households, with one enumerator covering part of the sample and the other covering the remaining households.
Speaking during a public baraza at Kong’rang’ule village, Nyanchama asked households that have been sampled for the exercise to give the enumerators maximum support and provide accurate information.
She assured that the collected information will be treated with confidentiality and utmost privacy and will only be used by the government for statistical purposes.
“The collected data will be analyzed to provide a comprehensive nationwide picture of household consumption, incomes, and expenditures across the 47 counties,” she noted.
By Moses Wekesa
