The relevant Ugandan law creating National Identification & Registration Authority (NIRA), among others, provides for every child birth to be registered. This is one of the many important ways through which key Uganda population characteristics can be established. Yet ironically, the newly-released final report for the 2024 population and housing census shows that this isn’t […]
In strict adherence to the standard reflected under the globally-accepted eight Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) questions, the UBOS enumerators prudently used the May 2024 census enumeration exercise to ask people in Uganda’s 10.7m households the appropriate food security-related questions. Specifically, these are questions like how often household members ever worry about not being sure […]
We know he is naturally a very busy person but President Museveni’s brother Gen Salim Saleh should create time and personally read chapter 12 of the newly-released 2024 census final report. It’s a 351 pages report whose authors, led by UBOS ED Dr. Chris Mukiza and Governing Board Chairman Dr. Albert Byamugisha, dedicated chapter 12 […]
