ABRIDGED VERSION

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics was established in 1998 as a semi-autonomous Government agency responsible for coordinating, monitoring and supervising the National Statistical System. The Bureau continues to support Government’s results-based agenda by providing statistics needed for planning, monitoring development performance and progress in the implementation of major national development policies and initiatives. The Population and Housing Census is the major source of demographic and social-economic statistics in Uganda. The country has conducted scientific population and housing censuses at intervals of about ten years since 1948. The latest such census was conducted in 2002 and was the most comprehensive census ever undertaken in Uganda. This census collected household-based data on population, housing, agriculture, micro and small enterprises as well as community–based data. In its continued commitment to make statistics a ‘public good’, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics has published Census results in different reports at different times and with varying degrees of detail. The Analytical Report provides more detailed and subject-oriented analyses of the census data which relate the findings to the national development policies and targets as outlined in the PEAP. This Analytical Report- Abridged Version contains the summary of all the monographs. The Bureau has also started