Monday, April 15,
2002
How we did the poll
The Nation survey was
conducted among a representative sample of 2,999 Kenyan citizens between
April 6 and April 7, by the Kenyan company Strategic Public Relations and
Research.
The firm's team sampled opinion
in 55 constituencies representing every Province.
Interviews were conducted
face-to-face by trained interviewers using a sample of people - 51 per
cent men and 49 per cent women - using the 2001 voter registration figures
from the Electoral Commission of Kenya to reflect the actual proportion
of voters province by province.
The age of the people questioned,
in percentages of the numbers interviewed, were as follows:
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18-20 (11.9)
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21-30 (39.4)
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31-40 (27.1)
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41-50 (11.3)
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51 and above (10.4 ).
Of these, 55 per cent had received
secondary education, 22.3 per cent had only primary education, 12.2 per
cent had been to university and 10.4 per cent had received no formal education.
Region by region, the sample
size of people interviewed was: Rift Valley (23.4 per cent), Eastern (16.4),
Central (16.1), Nyanza (14.9), Western (10.1), Coast (8.7), Nairobi (8.1),
North Eastern (2.2).
The answers to our questions
were broken down according to the province, sex, age and education level
of those who answered.
This is the latest of a series
of polls conducted for the Nation by this firm. Previous ones have
looked at Kenyans' views on the teachers' pay dispute, whether or not the
President should appoint a VP - he did, two days after the results were
published - and how Kanu had performed in Government compared to its election
promises.
