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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Cabinet has approved a plan to carry out a housing and population census scheduled for August next year.<\/p>\n

Addressing journalists in Kampala yesterday, the Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, said the census aims at improving service delivery.<\/p>\n

Dr Baryomunsi said the government has already earmarked Shs330b for the exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe received and approved a document from the Ministry of Finance on national housing and population census that is due to start next year. The census night has been fixed for August 24-25, 2023,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe process is estimated to cost Shs330 billion, which government will mobilise in the two financial years; FY2022\/2023 and 2023\/2024. The census will enable the government to establish the number of houses and people and budget accordingly in terms of service delivery to various regions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Process<\/p>\n

Dr Baryomunsi said the population census will be done digitally and data uploaded directly to the central server in Kampala.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, the Ministry of Finance through Uganda Bureau of Statistics(Ubos) shall be procuring IT devices such as tablets which will be used in the exercise because we are moving away from manual [system], and information shall be captured by the enumerators digitally and transmit the information to the servers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The minister added that after the census, the smart gadgets will be used to carry out other studies such as agricultural census and administrative statistics, among others.<\/p>\n

The last population census was conducted in 2014.<\/p>\n

Efforts to get a comment from UBOS officials about the census preparations and jobs available for the exercise were futile as they never picked up our calls by press time.<\/p>\n

However, last year, Monitor reported that UBOS had started mapping the country, developing administrative area maps, and conducting advocacy, among other activities.<\/p>\n

It had already completed the mapping of Nakasongola and Butambala districts.<\/p>\n

Digital system<\/b><\/p>\n

Dr Chris Baryomunsi, Minister of ICT and Nationa Guidance: \u201cThis year, the Ministry of Finance through UBOS (Uganda Bureau of Statistics) shall be procuring IT devices such as tablets which will be used in the exercise because we are moving away from manual [system] and information shall be captured by the enumerators digitally and transmit the information to the servers,\u201d<\/p>\n

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