The Executive Director/Census Commissioner Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Dr.Chris Mukiza has briefed the National Census Steering Committee chaired by the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) Ramathan Ggoobi on the status of the national population and housing census 2024 exercise.
In his update to the Committee, Mukiza revealed that 98% of the targeted households in the entire country had been covered as at midnight of the 10th day of enumeration.
He said the remaining 2% that fall under the category of areas that started late, hard-to-reach areas under conflict shall be enumerated beyond the earlier planned period to compensate for lost time.
The meeting also discussed strategies for expediting the mopping up and validation exercise especially in greater Kampala metropolitan area (GKMA).
He revealed that challenges experienced on the first day where 20,000 Enumerators failing to login due to lack of access credentials, and missing Enumeration Areas in the system have since been resolved and enumeration is moving on smoothly across the country.
On the issue of training allowances, Mukiza sais payments for 63 districts have been effected for districts that shared the names of their enumerators, and been uploaded on the recruitment portal.
