Census Analytical Report - Uganda Bureau of Statistics

The 2002 Population and Housing Census3.2 Composition of the Non-Household PopulationOnly 1 % of thepopulation wasnot enumerated inhouseholdsOut of the 23.8 million persons enumerated in Uganda, 244 thousand were notenumerated in households and hence classified as non-household population. Thisaccounted for one percent of the total population.Table 3.6 shows that more than one third of the non-household population wereenumerated in educational institutions while another one fifth were in refugee camps.Each of the other categories had less than 10 percent of the non householdpopulation.The non-household population was male dominated with a sex ratio of 138. There arewide variations in the sex composition of the institutional population by type. Mostnotable were the prison inmates and the homeless with sex ratios of 834 and 779males per 100 females respectively. Religious and medical institutions had sex ratiosless than 100 implying that they were female dominated.Table 3.6: Distribution of Non – Household Population by Sex and Type ofInstitutionPopulation Type Male Female Total Sex RatioEducational 33.4 35.5 34.3 130Refugee Camp 20.1 27.3 23.1 102Medical 7.4 13.5 10.8 75Prison 16.3 2.7 10.6 834Religious 4.9 7.5 6.0 91Floating Population 6.7 2.7 5.0 336Hostel 3.7 4.5 4.0 114Barracks 3.2 3.9 3.5 113Orphanage/Reformatory 1.5 1.9 1.7 113Homeless 2.8 0.5 1.8 779Hotel 4.7 2.3 3.7 289Total 100 100 100 138The non-household population was unevenly distributed among regions and districtsof Uganda. The distribution of the population by region and district is given in TableA1.3. The Northern region had 43 percent of the non-household population. TheEastern region had the least share of non-household population (9 percent).26