UGANDA

UGANDA
STATISTICAL ISSUES
(as of November 2, 2016)
I. Assessment of Data Adequacy for Surveillance
General: Overall data provision is adequate for surveillance purposes, although some shortcomings remain.
In July 2016 an e-GDDS implementation assisted the authorities in developing a National Summary Data
Page (NSDP) using the Open Data Platform (ODP) to enable public dissemination of the
e-GDDS data according to an advance release calendar. The authorities have issued a press release
announcing that the NSDP will be launched by end-November.
Real Sector Statistics: Since 2004 Uganda has been receiving technical assistance (TA) from the East
African Technical Assistance Center (East AFRITAC) on the compilation of annual and quarterly national
accounts and price statistics. With assistance from East AFRITAC and an external consultant, the Uganda
Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) developed supply and use tables (SUT) that include preliminary product
balances for 155 activities by 161 products. The rebased GDP estimates (FY2009/10) were released in
November 2014. In January 2016 a mission assisted with developing quarterly expenditure approach
accounts in current and constant prices. In March 2016, an STA mission provided TA on developing financial
accounts. by institutional sector and in October 2016 an East AFRITAC mission provided TA on compiling
the SUT for 2015.Uganda participated in an STA workshop on residential property price indexes (RPPI) and
other property price indexes and it has developed the region’s first RPPI. Labor market indicators such as
employment and wages/earnings are infrequently compiled and disseminated. UBOS aims to compile and
disseminate these data categories on an annual basis, but due to resource and data limitations, these data
are compiled with a two-year lag. The consumer price index (CPI) series released in January 2010 was
replaced in June 2014 by the new CPI series that uses the expenditure weights from the 2009/2010 Uganda
National Household Survey. UBOS compiles and disseminates a Producer Price Index (PPI) for
manufacturing (separately for imports and domestic output) and for hotels. A January 2016 mission assisted
with developing export and import price indexes and improving the producer price index for hotels and
restaurants.
Government Finance Statistics (GFS):
The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) compiles and reports annual
(GFSY) budgetary central and local government data and monthly (IFS) budgetary central government data
on a cash basis following the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014). East AFRITAC is
providing technical assistance to the national authorities to expand the coverage and improve the quality of
these statistics. The national GFS Technical Working Group, comprising representatives from MOFPED,
UBOS and the Bank of Uganda (BOU) are working on the implementation of GFSM 2014 to meet East
African Monetary Union (EAMU) Protocol’s fiscal statistics requirements. With the support of East AFRITAC,
the authorities have recently achieved substantial progress in the area of GFS. They have expanded the
coverage to the general government sector and have compiled, but not disseminated, general government
GFS for financial years (FYs) 2013/14 and 2014/15. In addition, according to current plans, Uganda will
disseminate estimates of the stock of financial assets and liabilities by 2017 and will complete
implementation of GFSM 2014 by the end of 2017.
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