The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has commenced a nationwide survey targeting households and property developers countrywide.
In a notice dated March 26, it was hosted that the Housing Survey will be undertaken for three months across the 47 counties.
KNBS noted that the data collection would be centred around 10 thematic areas including household size and composition, characteristics of houses, land ownership and tenure amongst others.
Other areas of interest in the survey include infrastructure accessed by households, house occupancy rates, housing financing, real estate transactions, housing regulations, and built environment professionals' insights.
According to the principal data collector of the government, the survey will be conducted among sampled households. Additionally, various professionals will be engaged in the exercise.
"KNBS has deployed a team of survey personnel in all 47 counties to administer a questionnaire to sampled households and institutions (including developers, real estate agents, regulators and financiers). The survey also targets to capture insights from the built environment professionals.
"We urge all sampled households, real estate agents, institutions and built environment professionals to provide the information sought through the survey to KNBS," read the report in part.
The data collection agency assured Kenyans that data collected in the process would be handled professionally in accordance with the Statistics Act 2006.
The last Housing Survey was conducted in the 2011/2012 Financial Year and is aimed at giving insights into the housing sector.
"Specifically, the survey will provide policymakers, planners, program designers and researchers with updated housing and real estate sector-specific information. It will also provide benchmark statistics for the compilation of National Accounts as well as comprehensive baseline indicators to monitor the sectors.
"This is in line with the Bureau's mandate to provide credible, quality and timely statistics to inform evidence-based policy and decision-making for all the sectors in our economy," read the survey in part.
A report on the exercise will be released in June 2024.
