Tomorrow the 10th of May 2024 is the official kick off day for Uganda’s 2024 population census, which will run up to the 19th of this very month.
Every after 10 years, Uganda carries out it’s population census and the last one we had as a country was in August 2014 and the statistics showed that we had a population of 34.6 million Ugandans, though some data analysts estimate that the country’s population has increased close to 48 million people.
In this years census, different measures have been put in place to ensure that all Ugandans with in the country are counted.
University students will be enumerated at their halls of residence using the institutional questionnaire and bus, trailer drivers and other road users who are always in transit, their data will be captured on the roads during day or even in the night hours.
Yesterday while addressing the media, Hon. Amos Lugoloobi, the State Minister of Finance and Planning said “I would like to assure the general public that all information collected during the exercise will be kept confidential and only used as consolidated data and not individual specific information.”
All citizens have been encouraged to provide accurate information since this data will be used in different planning, allocation and development processes of our different areas of residence and the country at large.
It Matters To Be Counted.
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