Afrobarometer Survey 2024
Round 10

Kenya, 2024

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KEN_2024_AFB-R10_v01_M

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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi in Kenya

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Jun 18, 2025

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Q94d. Main barrier to youth employment (Q94D)

Data file: KEN_R10.Data_28June24.wtd_.final_.release_updated.13Feb25.sav

Overview

Valid: 2400

Invalid: -

Minimum: 0

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1030

End: 1031

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Missing	0	0%
0	Youth do not face barriers to getting employment	12	0.5%
1	Lack of adequate training or preparation	530	22.1%
2	Lack of experience required by employers	430	17.9%
3	Youth are unwilling to work certain jobs (e.g., in agriculture or difficult jobs)	449	18.7%
4	Youth lack of entrepreneurial skills or motivation	345	14.4%
5	There is a mismatch between education qualifications and job requirements	501	20.9%
6	Some other barrier	65	2.7%
8	Refused to answer	2	0.1%
9	Don’t know	66	2.8%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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