Census Set For Sept 13

Mar 16, 2002

THE 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census (UP&HC) will be held from September 13 to 19, 2002, the Government has said.

By Dan nSalasattaTHE 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census (UP&HC) will be held from September 13 to 19, 2002, the Government has said. Isaac Musumba, the Minister of State for Planning and Economic Development, announced this during the closing of the district leaders’ workshop on UP&HC at the International Conference Centre on Thursday.Musumba said the minister of finance was in the process of gazetting the census night and the instruments to be used for taking the census. “These processes are necessary because the law establishing the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) mandates the Minister to order and UBOS to conduct the census,” he said.Musumba said, “Your role as district leaders in this exercise is to mount vigorous publicity campaigns through community sensitisation and mobilisation about the importance of the census. I wish to assure you that my ministry will ensure that adequate and timely support is extended to you at district level and further down.”He advised the leaders to establish district census committees along the terms of reference provided by UBOS.“The districts stand to gain from the exercise because with decentralisation, they have a duty to plan,” Musumba said. He said the coming population and housing census was unique in that for the first time, it includes an agricultural module. The Government is implementing the plan to modernise agriculture and needs accurate and reliable data on the population that participates in agricultural activities.Musumba told the leaders that from the perspective of the censuses in Uganda, modern population counts started in 1948 and were conducted at intervals of 10 years in 1959, 1969 and 1980. He said the last census was conducted in January 1991 and incorporated inquiry on more population and housing variables than ever before. But the information is becoming outdated and another census would help provide an update of the 1991 census indicators.Ends

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