High cost of living and unemployment are the major issues affecting Nairobi residents currently, Infotrak Research has shown.
In a poll released on Wednesday, 66 per cent of Nairobians said the high cost of living was a major issue followed by unemployment at 50 per cent.
This comes at a time when the cost of living has been rising on a monthly basis since February, hitting 7.1 per cent in May.
The rise in Kenya’s inflation was mainly due to an increase in prices of commodities, including food and non-alcoholic beverages, furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance.
Other top five issues affecting Nairobians, according to the poll, included; access to clean water (40 per cent), transport, infrastructure and roads (29 per cent) and insecurity and crime (23 per cent).
In the survey, 18 per cent of those interviewed raised concerns about poor sewerage and sanitation.
The poll further noted that 17 per cent of Nairobi residents decried increasing corruption cases which was affecting the cost of doing business.
"Access to healthcare was at 11 per cent, quality of education at eight per cent and empowerment of women and youth at seven per cent," it noted.
"We found poverty reduction came with six per cent, bad politics at four per cent, environmental conservation at three per cent, equal distribution of resources, drug and substance use each at two per cent."
Other concerns raised were social services, traffic congestion and change of leadership.
The survey was conducted between July 2 and 3 across the 17 constituencies in Nairobi.
Some 1,024 Kenyan adults were interviewed and it had a margin error of plus and minus three.
The interviews were conducted through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI).
