Gov’t Announces High Paying Jobs For Unskilled Kenyans
Among the high-ranking positions that Kenyans without any academic credentials attained in the last 12 months include legislators, administrators, and managers.
The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) released the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022 (KDHS) on Monday, July 3. The occupation of employed men and women aged 15 to 49 was taken into account in the report.
Legislators, administrators, and managers account for a higher proportion of women (10%) than men (5%) among those who were employed during the past 12 months.
Furthermore, 26% of women and 27% of men worked in elementary occupations, which made up the majority.
In the case of women, managers, administrators, and legislators made up 13.7% of the workforce, while professionals made up 1.3%. Associate professionals made up 1.1% of the workforce, and secretarial and clerical workers made up 0.7%.
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While skilled agricultural, fisheries, and wildlife employees made up 24% of the workforce, service and market sales personnel made up 22.2%. The percentages for artisans, machine operators, and elementary employees were 1.9, 2.1, and 32.4%, respectively.
Men
Men had 2.8% of the legislative, administrative, and management roles, compared to 1.8% of professionals. Associate professionals made up 2%, while secretarial and administrative work was done by 0.1% of the workforce.
For men, skilled agricultural and wildlife workers made up 25.4% of the labour force, while elementary jobs made up 42.7%.
Gov’t Announces High Paying Jobs For Unskilled Kenyans
According to KNBS, women who worked in non-agricultural fields in the previous year were more likely to only be paid in cash than those who worked in agriculture (88 vs. 52 %).
In all, 79% of working women received payment in cash only, while 17% were not paid at all.
Additionally, the data showed that 80% of males and 60% of women had jobs in the previous year. Additionally, the proportion of women who are either divorced, separated, or widowed has increased from 6% to 14% of men.
No education (no certificate), primary, secondary, and more than secondary (middle colleges and universities) were the several levels of education indicated under this category.
The report’s main goal was to present up-to-date estimates of demographic and health indicators to help with population and health-related programme design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at the national and county levels.
