A new survey by Twaweza East Africa has revealed that a massive 81 per cent of Kenyans feel that their income is insufficient to cater for household needs.
These findings were released by Twaweza East Africa in a research brief titled Going Without? Household economics in Kenya.
The brief is based on data from Sauti za Wananchi, Africa’s first nationally representative high‐frequency mobile phone survey.
The respondents stated that they were forced to tighten their budgets in order to survive.
It was also discovered that 43 per cent of Kenyans went to bed without eating anything for the whole day due to a lack of money or other resources and 65% skipped a meal when hungry in the past three months
“Measuring poverty and its relationship toour everrising GDP may be a contested area. But the lived reality of poverty presented in these data cannot be ignored. Most Kenyans make difficult choices everyday between basic needs despite the credit our economy gets for strong growth,” said,” Dr John Mugo, Director of Data and Voice at Twaweza.