Officers from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) are set to go round select Kenyan homes for the next two months to conduct the 2025 Remittances Household Survey (RHS).
In a notice on Tuesday, July 29, KNBS claimed that its staff will, between now and September, visit households that have transacted funds and goods with people living abroad. KNBS is set to conduct the survey in collaboration with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and the Financial Sector Deepening Kenya.
According to the notice, the key objectives of the survey - the first of its kind in the country - are to understand how money is sent to recipients, the cost of transactions, and the challenges faced during them.
The survey will also track how recipients use the funds and their impact on households. Furthermore, the data will be used to generate national estimates of the country's remittance flow.
According to KNBS, the exercise will be fundamental in enabling the government to engineer policies that will reinforce the effectiveness of the country's remittance market.
"The purpose of the 2025 RHS is to collect qualitative and quantitative information on inward and outward remittances. The data collected will be used to improve national statistics for planning, research, and policy formulation, including those related to supporting the remittance flows," the notice read.
KNBS, which assured that the information collected during the survey will remain confidential and will not be used for tax or legal enforcement, has encouraged citizens to fully cooperate with the officers, who will have identification badges, for a speedy and seamless process.
"All the information provided will be treated with utmost confidentiality and will only be used for statistical purposes. The 2025 RHS personnel are under oath not to divulge information provided by the households to a third party," KNBS said.
The announcement comes a week after the Bureau launched the door-to-door 2025/26 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS).
The KIHBS exercise, which kicked off on July 16, 2025, aims to provide key indicators in areas such as demographics, education, health, employment, fertility and mortality rates, child nutrition, housing conditions, and household consumption patterns.
According to KNBS, the survey will also capture data on access to water, sanitation, and energy use, giving a broad view of the quality of life in different parts of the country.
The year-long survey will target 24,480 scientifically sampled households and an additional 960 households in refugee camps, according to KNBS.
