National Housing and Population Census To Be Conducted Digitally

The Cabinet has resolved to carry out the next National Housing and Population Census in August 2023.

According to Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, the ICT and National Guidance, the census will happen on August 24 and 25 2023.

The National Housing and Population Census exercise will cost over Shs 300 billion shilling   and is usually carried out by the Uganda National Bureau of Statistics (UBOS).

Baryomunsi says this year, the Ministry of Finance through UBOS will procure tech gadgets like tablets to be used during the exercise as compared to the manual system that has always been used. Through this, information will be collected by enumerators and captured on digital gadets that will later be submitted to digital servers.

” We have received and approved a document from the Ministry of Finance on National housing and poulation census due to start next year. The Census night has been fixed for August 24-25 , 2023.” he says

The census is meant to enable the government establish the exact number of houses and people inorder to budget accordingly for service delivery at various regions.

Dr Chris Mukiza, the Executive UBOS Director says the statistical body has between now and May 2022 to map out districts in systematic order ahead of the exercise..

UBOS conducts  the census once every 10 years, it faced a delay after the 2002 census and ended up conducting the census meant for 2012 in 2014

During the last Census, the country was divided into 112 districts and one City,181 Counties,1,382 Sub-countys, 7,241 Parishes.

The total population of Uganda was estimated at  34.6 million persons in 2014 representing an increase of 10.4 million persons from the 2002 census.

Kampala Kampala Capital City had the highest population with 1,507,114 persons, followed by Wakiso Nansana Municipality with 365,857 , Kira Municipality 317,428, Makindye Ssabagabo 282,664 ,Mbarara Municipality 195,160 ,Mukono Municipality 162,744 Gulu Municipality 149,802, among others.

The population size is estimated to have grown to over 45 million since then.