| Most of North-Eastern Province's poor are in Wajir District, a poverty report says.
Launched in Nairobi yesterday, it says the district, with 42.2 per cent of the province's population, has the highest poverty level, with an index of 70 per cent.
Commissioned by the Central Bureau of Statistics and titled Who and Where are the Poor? it looks at the constituency profiles of each district.
In the survey, the poverty incidence was measured by a head count, with the indices ranging from 16 per cent to 84 per cent in all the 210 constituencies countrywide.
It sampled 11 constituencies in NEP, which contribute less than 4 per cent of the national national poverty. The province has an estimated 500,000 poor people and almost two thirds are concentrated in seven of the constituencies.
They are Mandera Central (12 per cent), Wajir East (11.8 per cent), Dujis (11.4 per cent), Wajir South (10.2 per cent), Mandera East (9.7 per cent), Lagdera (9.4 per cent ) and Ijara (4.5 per cent).
The survey, which looked at 46 divisions and 214 rural locations, with a total population of 665,000, found that the poverty indices of 428,000 people in each division ranged between 58 per cent and 70 per cent.
Wajir has 13 rural divisions, each with the highest population of 276,000 and an estimated 181,000 people with indices of between 60 and 70 per cent.
Source: Daily Nation of Kenya
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