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KeNADA — Kenya National Data Archive (KNBS)

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Kenya's official microdata catalog — census, survey and administrative-record datasets across economic, social and demographic topics, maintained by the national statistics agency.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on NADA portal and knbs.or.ke/knbs-data/, WebSearch independently describes the same portal and its access-policy requirement. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Microdata / Statistics
Verified Aug 2026

Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

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Official Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.

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Geographic
Verified Aug 2026Free / open

Kenya — Subnational Population Statistics (HDX/UNFPA)

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County/sub-county population statistics for Kenya, a Common Operational Dataset (COD) companion to the already-listed OCHA admin-boundaries dataset — actual population counts, not just boundaries.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on dataset page, HDX CKAN API returns same dataset with license/org metadata, metadata_modified 2026-05-07 confirms active maintenance. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

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Demographic
Verified Aug 2026Free — CC BY-IGO

Kencorpus Kenyan Language Corpus

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Text and speech corpus for three Kenyan languages, Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya, containing 4,442 texts (5.6 million words) and 1,152 speech files (177 hours). It also ships derived NLP sets: POS-tagged Dholuo/Luhya, 7,537 Swahili question-answer pairs and 13,400 translated sentences. Downloadable from Harvard Dataverse; released 2022.

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Language / NLP
Verified Aug 2026Free / open