Assistant Statistician, Field Services at Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)

Job Purpose: Reporting to the County Statistics Officer, the jobholder will be responsible for undertaking activities in the Field Office.

Key responsibilities

• Dispatching and receiving questionnaires;
• Following-up on non-responses from data providers;
• Collecting, collating, coding, capturing and classifying data;
• Capturing data into statistical applications;
• Maintaining checklists of data providers;
• Identifying and locating statistical units of enumeration;
• Carrying out pre-tests and piloting of data collection instruments;
• Printing questionnaires, archiving and retrieving completed returns;
• Updating county specific sampling frames;
• Preparing census databases for selection of sampling units;
• Listing field sampling units;
• Distributing sampling frame materials;
• Capturing data for developed and updated sampling units;
• Editing and updating records in the sampling frame database;
• Retrieving sampling units records;
• Undertaking any other duties lawfully assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements for appointment

• Must have a Diploma in any of the following disciplines:- Statistics; Economics; Actuarial Science; Mathematics or any other related qualifications from a recognized institution;
• Must have a Certificate in computer applications from a recognized institution