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    "content": "All hon. Members of Parliament are members of the district census committees and are, therefore, expected to actively participate in the deliberations of the committees. Being opinion leaders, they should undertake publicly activities in their constituencies on the need for everybody to participate in the census. Development of census instruments have been finalised and approved by the National Census Steering Committee. The instruments include the main census questionnaire, institutional population questionnaire, travellers and outdoor slip questionnaire and immigrant questionnaire to capture information about Kenyans in the diaspora. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the enumeration phase will require a large number of staff who will include enumerators, supervisors, senior supervisors, drivers, village elders, security personnel and administrators. About 100,000 enumerators, 22,000 supervisors and 6,000 senior supervisors will be engaged for census enumeration for about Kshs4.54 billion. Finalisation of the ongoing cartographic marking should confirm the exact number of personnel to be engaged. For social accessibility, census personnel will be engaged in areas they reside and employment will be through district census committees that will follow the guidelines to be given by the National Census Steering Committee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is expected that the census will cost about Kshs7.36 billion. The cost of personnel, during the census, will be about 55 per cent of that amount. Census preparatory activities are being implemented. Several challenges have been faced. These include the following, as I finalize. One is the post-election crisis. The preparatory census activities were hampered by post-election violence witnessed in early 2008. Boundary disputes; a number of districts are still experiencing boundary disputes, which should be resolved to allow the finalization of mapping. The number of districts and administration units have increased tremendously in the previous past. Districts that have been subdivided may have to be revisited which will affect the verification process and hence final printing of the map. This will require extra resources. My Ministry has, therefore, decided to work with 158 districts. Boundaries for other districts will be determined after the census enumeration. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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