Govt declares this Week's Friday a public holiday as country wide Census kicks Off

The government has declared Friday May 10 a public holiday to enable citizens to fully participate in the sixth National Housing and Population Census.

This has been confirmed by the chairperson board members, UBOS, Albert Byamugisha while speaking to the Media at Naguru Police headquarters.

“The public is encouraged to stay at home during the census period and cooperate with enumerators to ensure accurate and comprehensive data collection,” said Byamugisha.

Uganda is set to conduct the National Population and housing Census 2024 with the reference night being 9th May 2024. The Census will be done in 10 days starting on 9th May 2024 to 19th May 2024.

The President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, launched the NPHC 2024 activity on December 12th2023.  After every 10 years, Uganda holds a national census and the last one was carried out in 2014.

The census figures play a critical role in guiding planning, policy formulation, and programme implementation as well as monitoring development progress in line with the national goals and objectives.

The census exercise will use digital technology to collect, process and disseminate census results. The digital census will enable the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) to produce accurate and timely demographic, social and economic statistics.

Census Implementation Plan 

Phases Activity Start Final Remarks 

Pre-Enumeration Stakeholder consultations Feb-21 Nov-25

Instrument development Mar-20 Sep-23

Mapping of Enumeration areas Jul-21 Dec-23 Census mapping in 11 cities namely Mbale, Jinja, Soroti, Arua, Fort Portal, Gulu, Masaka, Kampala, Mbarara, Hoima started on 22nd Jan 24

Gazetting of the NPHC 2024 Oct-23

Publicity and Advocacy Jun-21 Nov-25

Development of Data processing Mar-20 Feb-24

Pretesting of Tools and Data processing application Mar-23 Jun-23

Pilot Census Enumeration Jun-23 Jul-23

Procurement and deploymet of ICT and other equipment Jul-21 Feb-24