Responding to COVID-19: Highlights of a Survey in Kenya

This survey was conducted to assess public support for, and the likely social impacts of public health social measures to control COVID-19. The fieldwork on this study was conducted by Ipsos with results based on 1,031 interviews with adults aged 18+ in Nairobi (822 interviews) and Mombasa (209 interviews). Fieldwork was administered by Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) using a Random Digit Dial (RDD) approach incorporating both landline and mobile sample. Data are representative of the populations of the urban area (s) included and are unweighted. Fieldwork took place between March 29 and April 1, 2020. This program of research is an outcome of a partnership between Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, Africa CDC, the World Health Organization’s African Regional Office (AFRO) and Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), and the World Economic Forum to form a new public-private partnership to support evidence-based implementation of PHSMs to reduce COVID-19 transmission in African countries (“flattening the curve”) while working with governments to mitigate social and economic disruption and other unintended consequences.