Gov’t releases Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022

The 2022 survey aims to provide up-to-date estimates of demographic, health, and nutrition indicators to help with population and health-related program planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at the national and county levels.

The goals include estimating fertility rates, determining the country's prevalence of contraception, reducing childhood mortality, improving children's nutrition, and examining the dietary diversity of women.

Other pertinent issues are to obtain information on knowledge and behavior related to the transmission of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and ascertain the extent and patterns of domestic violence and female genital mutilation/cutting.

The sample for the 2022 KDHS was drawn from the Kenya Household Master Sample Frame (K-HMSF), which is the frame that KNBS currently operates to conduct household-based sample surveys in Kenya. 

The 2022 KDHS was designed to provide estimates at the national level, for rural and urban areas, and, for some indicators, at the county level. 

The sample was designed to include 42,300 households, with 25 households chosen for each cluster, for a total of 1,692 clusters spread across the country, with 1,026 clusters in rural areas and 666 in urban areas.