Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has transferred 60,247 of 120,000 census tablets it bought this year, to the Ministry of ICT for use in other government operations. The bureau however refrained from commenting on where the remaining devices are. Chris Mukiza, the UBOS …
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Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG & URN | Kampala Archbishop, His Grace Dr Paul Ssemogerere, has said he is more worried about Catholics, especially children, moving to other faiths, than by the portrayal by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) that church numbers are declining. The Archbishop said he personally had no …
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Speaker raises concern over public data discrepancies Kampala, Uganda | PWATCH UG | Speaker Anita Among has directed the government to provide Parliament with the full 2024 Census report, following public criticism regarding discrepancies in the provisional census data. She emphasized that Parliament needs to thoroughly review the official report …
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HANU raise concerns on understatement of figures for older persons in the census provisional results Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The HelpAge Advocacy Network Uganda (HANU) has warned that they have found substantial anomalies on Older Persons data in the current Census Report 2024 released on October 3. Namara Arthur Araali, …
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Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | “We have the most comprehensive census data ever collected in Uganda,” a statistician of the Gen Z Generation who works at UBOS, has assured The Independent. In his mid-20s, and likely one of the youngest at UBOS – the principal data collecting, processing, analysing and disseminating …
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Kampala, Uganda | LOUIS JADWONG | The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Executive Director and Census Commissioner Dr. Chris Mukiza has admitted that there were significant errors in the information on tribes, in the 2024 Census results he released this week. “There were no contractions in the number of people across …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A report from the 2024 Population and Housing Census has revealed that life expectancy in Uganda has risen to 68.5 years, an increase from the 63.7 years recorded in the 2014 census. According to the report, females continue to live longer than their male counterparts. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As the country awaits the outcome of the 9th National Population Census, many Ugandans have been left asking many questions, especially regarding the importance and accuracy of the exercise. The period set for the enumeration was extended from May 19 to May 25, to cater …
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Rukiga, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The much-awaited census exercise is finally underway in Kitanga parish in Rukiga district where it had been halted as a result of a technical glitch. The nationwide exercise that started on Friday, May 10, was planned to last for 10 days. However, in Kitanga, it …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The enumerators in the Moroto district have decried the lack of protective equipment for carrying out the census exercise in the midst rainy season On Monday, UBOS rolled out the census program to run for ten days across the country. However, the exercise comes at …
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