Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) is set to conduct aquaculture, Labour, and education baseline census in Gulu City.
The exercise, scheduled to begin this month targets households, schools, and aquaculture enterprises in both urban and peri-urban communities.
According to UBOS Public Relations Officer, Nancy Anyango, the census will provide vital statistics on fish farming, Labour, and the education sector, which are key areas of economic and social development in the country.
Anyango said the data that will be collected will be used for planning purposes,inform policy and to help the government monitor the levels of service delivery in the country.
She explained that the education baseline survey will start when learners resume studies in the second term, while for higher institutions of learning, the enumerators will use data provided by those institutions.
“This exercise is going to ensure that all schools in the country, both private and government, are enumerated or counted…We shall enumerate from kindergarten to university,” Anyango stressed.
UBOS rolled out education census on 7th April 2025 in Kampala, Mukono, and Wakiso, but the exercise was halted when schools broke off for holidays.
The aquaculture component of the census will collect data on, number and types of fish ponds, species being farmed, farm Labour, scale of production, fish farm inputs and other equipment, infrastructure and services, aquaculture production and purposes, land use, market access and challenges, skills and training gaps.
The labour census will help to determine the numbers of employment, underemployment, and unemployment in the country, and establish which sectors are creating the most jobs in the country, which ones are retaining workers for a longer time, as well as levels of destruction, such as after Covid-19.
Alfred Okwonga, the mayor of Gulu City, welcomed the survey, saying the statistics and the report will help the administrative units to know their status in those particular sectors.
The mayor urged residents to cooperate with UBOS field staff and provide accurate information, and asked the enumerators to be close to the political leaders and explain what the exercise is about, to prevent cases where aspirants politicize government programs, for selfish interests of getting vote
