CENSUS: Post-enumeration survey on

Oct 28, 2014

THE Uganda Bureau of Statistics will not extend the deadline of the ongoing post-enumeration survey which is evaluating accuracy of data collected

By Raymond Baguma

 

THE Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) will not extend the deadline of the ongoing post-enumeration survey which is evaluating accuracy of data collected during the just-concluded national census exercise.

 

Godfrey Nabongo, the UBOS communications and public relations manager said the post-enumeration survey (PES) kicked off on Monday after UBOS conducted and completed the 10th national population and housing census in August and September.

 

“The exercise has started well; we have an experienced team of enumerators and we have not received any issues from the field, relating to cooperation from the public. They will completed within 10 days and with no extension of days,” Nabongo said.

 

In a statement, Ben Mungyereza, the UBOS executive director said the survey would examine coverage and content error at national, regional and urban as well as rural levels.

 

He said it is on the basis of findings from a post-enumeration survey and other methodological and administrative considerations that census findings are declared credible.

 

“For instance, Uganda conducted a PES in January 2003 to evaluate the margin of the coverage and content errors in respect of the 2002 national population and housing census. It was discovered then that the degree of undercount was 5.6 percent which was far below the average by many countries both in the developing and developed world,” explained Mungyereza.

 

Results from the post-enumeration survey will be matched with the census results, permitting estimates to be made of coverage and content errors.

 

“This will enable us uncover deficiencies if any in the methodology of the census and make adjustments in the final results and improvements for future censuses among other uses. In effect, this will take care of the population that has reported having been omitted or double counted,” added Mungyereza.

 

The survey is expected to last 10 days from October 27 up to November 5, in 800 enumeration areas which represent one percent of all enumeration areas covered in the concluded census, according to James Muwonge, team leader of the survey.

 

Every district in the country will have representation with EAs ranging from 2 to 40 per district. A total of 950 enumerators will be required to cover the 800 EAs selected.

 

The survey will involve issuing questionnaires to households in enumeration areas. The enumerators will seek inform about the name, age, sex, registration for national ID, disability, education levels, whether the respondents were enumerated during the census.

 

Other information to be obtained from the respondents will include marital status, housing and household characteristics, remittances and deaths in households.

 

The survey will include all persons who should have been counted in the census. The survey will however not cover populations in institutions such as hotels and hospitals; and those in temporary structures that were erected after the census.

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