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    "content": "they did not succeed. I want to highlight those poverty levels, because the documents that have all those poverty levels that are currently being used to allocate CDF resources to constituencies are here. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to demonstrate to this House that, yes, these poverty levels have some credibility; but there are so many drawbacks and flaws in them that if we were to wait--- This is the most current poverty levels report we have, which is based on a survey that was done in 2005/2006. If we do not carry out another survey before we go to the devolved Government system, then it will be almost obvious that attempts will be made to use this document. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to demonstrate, using a few examples, that there are quite a lot of draw backs in this document. Therefore, it is essential that the Government makes a very concerted effort to carry out a very well- planned integrated household budget survey, that is well co-ordinated and well controlled, so that the figures for the poverty levels that we come up with will be credible enough for everybody to accept them. This survey was undertaken in 2005/2006; basically, it was designed to provide data needed to update measures for living, notably poverty in Kenya. So, actually, if you go through this, you will see poverty levels for every constituency that was determined. It was also aimed at coming up with the consumer price index for various localities in t he country. It also had an overall goal of coming up with household consumption for the system of national accounting to come up with an integrated household consumption index. Apart from that, this report also came out with a number of other sets of data, particularly socio-economic data, including on education, health, energy, water, sanitation, credit and agriculture. So, it was quite a comprehensive survey; it was more or less like what we did in the 2009 national census. So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not go into the details, but I just want – if you allow me – to read just a small section in this report, so that it is very clear to all the hon. Members. This is from section 1.3.1 - Measuring Well-being. It says:-"
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