UBOS resumes baseline education census in Kigezi, Toro and Karamoja

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Heads of government and private schools and institutions have been urged to give maximum support to the Nationwide Baseline Education Census.

The call was made by John Igumira, spokesperson of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), while addressing the media at the UBOS offices in Mbarara city on Monday, September 8, 2025.

Igumira said the exercise, which began on April 7, 2025, has so far recorded about 90% success in the enumeration of schools.

He explained that as the third term begins, UBOS is resuming enumeration in all schools in Toro, Kigezi, Karamoja and Rwenzori sub-regions.

“Teachers, directors of schools where we haven’t reached to enumerate your schools, when enumerators come, kindly give them access. We know the third term is busy, but we shall use a little time to comb up, we shall not destabilise your school programmes. This exercise we are implementing is for the greater use of your schools,” Igumira said.

“We must give realistic and clean data of schools so that the ministry can be able to plan for our students,” he added. 

He expressed confidence that the baseline education census will be completed before the end of this year.

According to Igumira, the exercise has already covered most schools nationwide and is aimed at collecting statistical data and information from all schools and education training institutions, generating high-quality data to guide planning and policy decisions in the education sector.

The census covers both government-aided and private establishments, including pre-primary, primary, secondary, vocational and higher institutions of learning.

He added that information is also being collected on non-teaching staff and the institutional identity of schools.

“When the third term starts immediately, we shall resume the exercise,” he said.

Igumira commended schools where the enumeration has been completed for their high level of cooperation.

He further urged local governments to make better use of the census area profiles already uploaded on the UBOS website for planning.

“Any Ugandan out there who wants to get information about their area, we have it right from the district to parish level, and this information is for public use,” he said.