Sample characteristics: Uganda
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1991 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Uganda Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All persons who are in Uganda the night of the census, regardless of their nationality. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | January 11, 1991 |
| Field work period | 7 days, with no curfew |
| Questionnaire | Schedule A: short form and Schedule B: long form |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | A sample of approximately 10% of the rural enumeration areas where a long questionnaire was administered to the households, while all urban areas were enumerated with a long questionnaire. Thus the data set consists of these two sets (LONG RURAL and URBAN). Use the weights that are record specific to be representative of the household population. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 1548460 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by national statistical office taking into consideration five key variables. Urban areas are sampled at 10 times the rate of rural areas. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | County |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | The accommodation occupied by one household is the dwelling unit. |
| Households | A household is a group of persons who normally live and eat together, regardless of whether they are related. |
| Collective dwellings | Sometimes groups of people live together but cannot be said to belong to a household. Persons in hospitals, colleges, barracks and prisons are examples. |
| Special populations | Floating population refers to those who will not spend census night in households, institutions or hotels. They include persons who are travelling on census night, those in transit at airports or on ships or in railway stations. They include also beggars, vagrants and other homeless people who spend the night at bus parks, on the streets or similar places. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census (with agricultural module) |
| Statistical agency | Uganda Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All persons who are in Uganda the night of the census, regardless of their nationality. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto (all) and de jure (heads only) |
| Census/survey day | September 12, 2002 |
| Field work period | 7 days, with a curfew in the capital on the first day |
| Questionnaire | Unique census questionnaire (no specific name) |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | A 10% systematic sample of questionnaire records (households and institutions) was taken. These could have been households or institutions. A uniform weight of 10 should thus be attached to each record and the resultant population will 99.98% of the non-sample population. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 2497449 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | County |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling unit is the unit actually occupied by the household. |
| Households | A household is defined as a group of persons who normally eat and live together. If a man has two or more wives and they and their children live and eat together, they form one household. |
| Collective dwellings | Sometimes groups of people live together but cannot be said to belong to a household. Persons in hospitals, colleges, barracks and prisons are examples. |
| Special populations | Floating population refers to persons who will not spend the census night in any Household, institutions or hotels. They include persons who were traveling on the census night, those in transit at airports or on ships in landing sites or in railway stations. Homeless are people who do not have any form of formal shelter over their heads e.g. those sleeping on verandahs, condemned, abandoned or partially demolished structures. They also include beggars, vagrants, street children and people who spend the night at bus parks, on the streets or similar places. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | National Population and Housing Census 2014 |
| Statistical agency | Uganda Bureau of Statistics |
| Population universe | All persons who are in Uganda the night of the census. |
| De jure or de facto | De facto |
| Census/survey day | August 28 2014 |
| Field work period | August 28 to September 6, 2014 |
| Questionnaire | A single household form collected information on individual characteristics |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | The 10% sample was drawn by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 3506546 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor=10) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | County and sub-county |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A building that is actually occupied by a single household. This is irrespective of the size of the household, building size or intended use. |
| Households | A household is defined as a group of persons who normally eat and live together. |
| Collective dwellings | Persons enumerated in institutions such as boarding schools, hospitals, prisons, etc. |