The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) is set to conduct the Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) in August to validate the quality of the 2024 Uganda Census results in terms of coverage and content.
The exercise will be conducted in all 135 districts and 11 cities in Uganda.
While addressing the media at Statistics House yesterday, the Executive Director of UBOS, Dr. Chris Mukiza, said that the bureau has already identified a team of independent and specialized personnel who are already undergoing training at the national level from the 15 statistical sub-regions to carry out the survey.
Dr. Mukiza further stated that the exercise will cost Ugx 3.9 billion and that the survey targets all persons who spent the previous night in the household of the enumeration area.
He also said the Uganda People’s Defence Force, Uganda Police, Prisons, educational institutions, religious institutions, and refugee camps will not be enumerated.
‘’Here we shall not go deep; we shall not ask very many other questions like how it was in the main census. Just the household and their characteristics, education level, sex, and employment will be asked,” Mukiza said.
“They will just have to remember who stayed at their respective households the previous night; after that work has been done, the data will be brought back to headquarters for matching,” he added.
He further reviled that the Uganda Census 2024 was 99% funded by the Government of Uganda to the tune of Ugx 328.74 billion, with the remaining 1% funded by development partners including UNHCR Uganda, UNDP Uganda, and UNFPA Uganda.
