Kenya society data

Point locations of primary and secondary schools in Kenya, published by Orion. Each point represents a school with attributes including name, level, status, county, district, zone, sub-county, ward, and coordinates. The dataset covers Kenya and includes 37,930 features.

Social distancing is a public health measure intended to reduce infectious disease transmission, by maintaining physical distance between individuals or households. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, populations in many countries around the world have been advised to maintain social distance (also referred to as physical distance), with distances of 6 feet or 2 metres commonly advised. Feasibility of social distancing is dependent on the availability of space and the number of people, which varies geographically. In locations where social distancing is difficult, a focus on alternative measures to reduce disease transmission may be needed.  To help identify locations where social distancing is difficult, we have developed an ease of social distancing index. By index, we mean a composite measure, intended to highlight variations in ease of social distancing in urban settings, calculated based on the space available around buildings and estimated population density. Index values were calculated for small spatial units (vector polygons), typically bounded by roads, rivers or other features.  This dataset provides index values for small spatial units within urban areas in Kenya. Measures of population density were calculated from high-resolution gridded population datasets from WorldPop, and the space available around buildings was calculated using building footprint polygons derived from satellite imagery (Ecopia.AI and Maxar Technologies. 2020).  These data were produced by the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton. This work was part of the GRID3 project with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. Project partners included the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and the Flowminder Foundation.

Point locations of educational facilities across Kenya, including primary schools, secondary schools and other learning institutions. Each feature records the facility name, type and administrative location. Use this layer to map education access, identify underserved areas, plan school placement, and analyse catchment areas and travel distances to schools.

This dataset shows the polling stations in mathare Kenya

This dataset shows the polling centres in Kibera, kenya