Statistics Act
2. Interpretation
2. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—"agency" includes individuals, institutions or groups of persons;"authorised officer" means a person appointed as such under section 10;"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Bureau established under section 5;"Bureau" means the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics established under section 3;"Cabinet Secretary" means the Cabinet Secretary responsible for matters relating to statistics;"census" means a statistical operation in which all units of the population of interest are enumerated;"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board of Directors;"co-ordination" includes technical advice to ensure that standards and methods are met and adherence to the code of practice in statistical production and dissemination;"Director-General" means the Director-General appointed under section 8;"Minister" deleted by Act No. 16 of 2019, s. 2;"national statistical system" includes producers, suppliers and users of official statistics working under the supervision and co-ordination of the Bureau including ministries, departments and agencies;"official statistics" means statistics produced by the Bureau and any other statistics designated as official by the Director-General;"Population and Housing Census" means a Population and Housing Census conducted by the Bureau under section 17;"professional independence" means independence of production and dissemination of statistics from interference or influence by any individual, interest group or political authority; and"sampling frame" includes a representative list of items that form a population from which a sample is drawn for the purpose of conducting a survey and includes individuals, households or institutions and may be a national sample survey and evaluation programme, the business register or any other frame of the Bureau;"statistical information" means official information collected by the Bureau, for purposes of this Act, on the matters set out in the First Schedule;"statistics" means any quantity collected as summary of data.[Act No. 16 of 2019, s. 2.]Source: Kenya Law