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The main aims of this study were to assess the structure of rural household income in Kenya in 1982; to discover changes since 1975 in agriculture and assets with special attention to the impact of the coffee boom; to assess access to government services and health, education, water, wood and sewage.

Main Topics:

Household composition; migration; employment and other work; asset changes since 1975; health status and treatment; education; farm production.

Multi-stage stratified random sample

This survey followed up all respondents in an earlier survey in two provinces who could be located. The earlier survey, IRS3 carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Kenya, in 1977/8 is not held at the Data Archive.

Face-to-face interview