30% of households in Uganda so far covered – UBOS

The Uganda National Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has revealed that 30% of the approximately 8.7 million households across the country have been covered in the first three days of the ongoing National Housing and Population Census (NHPC) exercise.

Addressing journalists during a weekly press briefing at the Police Headquarters in Naguru, Dr. Albert Byamugisha the chairperson of the UBOS board of directors also revealed that more enumerators have been deployed in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan area in a bid to beat the set deadline.

Last evening UBOS announced a one-day extension of the census exercise in Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono to May 20^th, to enable enumerators make up for the time lost on the first day due to technical glitches experienced with the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI) tablets.

Byamugisha has meanwhile revealed that the Bureau has so far cleared payment of enumerators in six districts and facilitation for the enumerators in the other 25 districts is being processed.

” For the case of parish supervisors an the enumerators six districts have been paid for example in Buganda including mukono, Kaberamido, Buvuma,Kiruhura kalangala etc, and other pending 25 districts including Budaka,Butambala, Ntoroko, Masaka Kaliro Moyo among others are yet to receive their payments, so we wan to assure all our field staff that they will be payed directly on their mobile phones they gave us. ” Byamugisha said.

The 2024 NHPC exercise is running until May 19th under the theme; “It matters to be counted”.

 

Written by Juliet Nalwooga