Isaac Lamba
Principal Statistician, HEREDMA Consultants
Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Kenya
Principal Statistician, HEREDMA Consultants · Nairobi, Kenya
Areas of expertise
- Survey sampling and weighting
- Statistical analysis
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Data management
Research focus
Isaac Lamba has worked for three decades on household, in-school and community surveys in Kenya, from national baselines to studies in refugee camps and arid counties.
He is skilled in sample design, weighting, data management and analysis in SPSS and Stata, and in monitoring and evaluation.
Selected experience
- Principal Statistician, HEREDMA Consultants, Nairobi (2012 to present)
- Sampling statistician, Resilient livelihoods and food security programme in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (2026)
- Lead consultant, East African Logistics Performance Survey (2019)
- Statistician, Mwendo baseline survey for an orphans and vulnerable children programme, Western Kenya (2018)
Education
- MSc, Applied Statistics (2009), University of Nairobi
- BSc, Statistics (1992), Moi University, Kenya
Professional memberships
- Statistical Society of Kenya
- Population Association of Kenya
How Isaac Lamba strengthens PollsAfrica studies
On a PollsAfrica study, a key expert is a named person who answers for the work, not a name on a list. Isaac Lamba does three things on the studies we offer him.
Sampling design and weighting
He advises on how samples are drawn and weighted for household, school and community surveys, drawing on three decades of survey work in Kenya.
Survey analysis
He advises on analysis in SPSS and Stata, and on how results are tabulated and reported.
Data quality
He advises on data management and quality checks, from the questionnaire to the final dataset.
He reviews the instrument for local meaning, guides ethics approval and signs off the findings, so you get results a Nigerian reader and a funder can both trust.
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