UBOS Carries Out Post-Enumeration Survey Data Collection

By Our Reporter

NATIONAL

Uganda Bureau of Statistics is carrying out Post enumeration data collection effective Tuesday, 20^th August, 2024.

Post-Enumeration Survey Data Collection is a household survey undertaken shortly after the census to evaluate the completeness of census coverage.

It involves an independent re-capture of a statistically designed sample of private dwellings and the people within them covered by the national census.

According to a statement issued by UBOS, the data collection exercise shall take five days across the country.

“We request the public to cooperate with the team of field staff who will be visiting every household in the sampled villages as they collect the required information,” reads the UBOS statement.

The PES responses are linked to the census records (both responses and administrative enumerations in the 2024 Census) to find out who was missed by the census, counted more than once, or counted in error (for example, people who were overseas on census night, babies born after census night).

The PES sample is then adjusted to reflect the national population through the use of statistical models and estimation methods.

The key outputs produced include the net census undercount, gross undercount, and gross overcount. These are produced at a national level and by a range of sub-populations of interest.

The PES also provides official measures of response rates – the proportion of the population and sub-populations who completed and returned census forms.

Why do we do it?

We measure census coverage primarily because it improves the accuracy of the estimated resident population (ERP). It is also an important measure of the performance or quality of the census. Those procedures uphold international best practice.