National Statistics 45% open

Kenya

What data is expected?

Key national statistics on demographic and economic indicators.

  • Gross Domestic Product
  • Consumer Price Index
  • Trade statistics of import and export
  • Foreign aid
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • National employment rate
  • Birth and death statistics
  • National population census
  • None of the above

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Available free of charge Yes
Downloadable Yes This data is not released using an open data licence.
Publicly available Yes
Openly licenced No
Up-to-date No
In an open and machine-readable format Data is made available in pdf format.
location https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/cpi-rates-inflation-mar - KNBS Kenya Consumer price index and inflation, https://www.knbs.or.ke/gross-domestic-product-gdp/ - KNBS Kenya GDP, https://www.knbs.or.ke/overview-of-census-2009 - KNBS Kenya Census, https://www.knbs.or.ke/foreign-investment-survey-2018/ - FDI, https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/labour-force-basic-repo - Employment rate, https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/vital-statistics/ - Vital stats * GDP - PDF available, outdated * CPI - PDF available * FDI - PDF available * Employment - PDF available, very outdated. See https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-has-kenyas-unemployment-really-dropped-to-7-4/ * Vital stats - PDF available, outdated
Collected by government Yes
findable_steps Conducted a search on google and KNBS website using the following phrases; kenya gross domestic product, Kenya consumer price index, kenya import and export statistics, Kenya trade statistics, Kenya import and export statistics, kenya foreign aid statistics, kenya foreign investment statistics, Kenya employment rate, Kenya birth and death statistics, Kenya census
characteristics Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, Trade statistics of import and export, Foreign Direct Investment, National employment rate, Birth and death statistics, National population census There are several surveys on trade.
Controlled access Yes Yes for the data that is already available.
Collector name Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) knbs.or.ke and the Kenya ICT Authority opendata.go.ke. KNBS website is not search friendly and does not publish data as open data.

Meta data

Data location   https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/cpi-rates-inflation-mar - KNBS Kenya Consumer price index and inflation
   https://www.knbs.or.ke/gross-domestic-product-gdp/ - KNBS Kenya GDP
   https://www.knbs.or.ke/overview-of-census-2009 - KNBS Kenya Census
   https://www.knbs.or.ke/foreign-investment-survey-2018/ - FDI
   https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/labour-force-basic-repo - Employment rate
    https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/vital-statistics/ - Vital stats
Data licence   Unknown
Data format   Unknown
Reviewer   Jennifer Walker
Submitters   Paul Mungai
Last modified   Sun May 06 2018 14:42:58 GMT+0000 (UTC)