Uganda - Uganda National Household Survey 1999/2000

Start	End	Cycle
1999-08	2000-07	N/A

Face-to-face [f2f]
The survey was designed such that agricultural households were visited twice, once at the end of the first season and again during the end of the second season, to ascertain areas planted and outputs for each season.
The socio-economic households and communities to be surveyed were spread over a year, to cater for seasonality. Fieldwork was programmed for 180 person-days based on norms developed during the past surveys.
A pre-test on the developed questionnaires was conducted by the Bureau with collaboration with a World Bank Consultant Mr. Bart Minten in the districts of Mbale and Mpigi in May 1999. The final version of the survey instruments was made after a pilot (conducted in July 1999 in the districts of Mbarara, Ntungamo, Lira, Mubende, Kiboga, Iganga and Mbale) with
collaboration of another World Bank Consultant, Mr. Klaus Deininger.
Training of enumerators was conducted in June 1999 and another retraining course was conducted in August 1999. Fieldwork commenced in August 1999 and was completed in July 2000.

The questionnaires for the UNHS were based on the previous Household Survey Questionnaires with some modifications and additions. A household questionnaire was administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including duration of stay in household, relationship to household head, sex, age, literacy, marital status, activity status and orphanhood status. The household questionnaire also includes education, and health, characteristics of dwelling, past experiences of dwelling, and household consumption and non - consumption expenditure modules.
Questions were also asked in each household for women aged 15-49 and children under age five. For children, the questions were answered by the mother or caretaker of the child.

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation
Uganda Bureau of Statistics	UBOS	Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development

The Survey comprised of 12 field teams and 3 Office based teams. Each team consisted of a Supervisor, 4 Enumerators and one Driver. Fieldwork was undertaken with the use of mobile field teams whereby work was programmed from the headquarters to all the sampled areas. There are four Statistical Regions, and the teams were recruited based on the languages most prevalent in each region. Four teams were recruited for each region. In central, the teams were was predominantly Luganda speaking. In the eastern region teams spoke either, Lusoga, Lugisu or Ateso/Ng’ karimojong, while in the north, the teams spoke either Luo or Lugbara and in the west they spoke Runyankole/Rukiga or
Runyoro/Rutoro. In total there were 15 Supervisors, 60 Enumerators, 4 Regional Supervisors, 4 Senior Supervisors and 16 Drivers.