Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 1989

The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey is a welcome addition to demographic and health data sources in Kenya. It provides us with a complete set of relevant data to evaluate population, health and family planning programmes and to assess the overall demographic situation in the country. Given the scope and representativeness, it can stand with census and intercensal survey data to provide the National Council for Population and Development, social scientists and other policymakers with a clear picture about Kenya's demographic trends in the recent past and likely directions for the future. The KDHS is an addition to previous surveys that have been conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics and have utilised the CBS sample survey programme. Demographic surveys that have been conducted by CBS in the past include: the Kenya Fertility Survey (KFS) in 1977/78; the National Demographic Survey I (NDS I) in 1977; NDS II (1978); NDS llI (1983); and the Kenya Contraceptive Prevalence Survey (KCPS) (1984).