Students follow proceedings during the Moi University graduation ceremony on June 30, 2017. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
At least 17.8 million Kenyans were either
pursuing various courses in institutions of higher learning or were in
school according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census report.
However,
the completion rate was not commensurate to the number of learners who
registered. Only 11.6 million completed their studies.
SHOCKING REVELATION
This means about 6.9 million Kenyans, who were in school or institutions of higher learning, did not complete their studies
But the shocking revelation is that 7.1million Kenyans have never been to school.
The
data shows that 10 million people were in primary schools while 3.4
million were in secondary schools. About 3.3 million were in pre-primary
schools.
Those attending middle level
college or technical training education were about 500,000 while the
number of those pursuing university education stood at 471,000.
The number of people with university education was about 1.3 million.
According
to the data, a number of sub-locations had no people on the census
night for various reasons including migration by residents.
MIGRATED
Other reasons included forest area, gazetted national parks and the area being covered by the lakes.
The
affected sub locations were Tsavo East National Park in Makueni County,
Aberdare Forest in Kiambu, Parkati in Turkana County where population
migrated in search of water.
Sub
locations that had no people due to forest cover included Nandi South
Forest, North Tinderet and South Forest in Nandi County.
Mau
Forest, and Tinderet Forest in Nakuru, Kericho and Bomet counties
respectively as well as Kakamega East Forest were not enumerated.
The
results further revealed that economically active population was 22.3
million, comprising the working population of 19.7 million.
JOB SEEKERS
The number of female working population accounted for 50.2 per cent.
More men (50.4 per cent) were working in urban areas compared to women (40.6 per cent).
The
number of job seekers stood at 2.6 million while 18.9 million people
were outside the labour force at the time of the census.
The
report further revealed that there were about 10.1 million youth aged
between 18-34 years and 4.1 million youth aged 15-24 years were in the
labour force.
More
Kenyans were becoming home owners as the results showed that 61.3 per
cent were home owners. Those occupying rented dwelling units were 38.7
per cent.
HOME OWNERS
“About 93.9 per cent of home owners constructed their houses, 3.3 were inherited,” said the report.
The number of Kenyans purchasing houses through mortgage was low. Only 2.8 per cent said they purchased their homes.
The
data shows that 80.3 per cent of the household occupied dwellings had
iron sheet as the main roofing material followed by concrete at 8.2 per
cent.
About 34.2 per cent of Kenyans relied on piped water as a source of drinking water.
More than half or 51.2 per cent of the Kenyans use covered pit latrines as sanitation facility.
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