Indicator 5.b.1 Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target 5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Indicator 5.b.1: Proportion of individuals aged 15 years and above who own a mobile telephone, by sex

December 2021

Indicators under target 1.4, 2.c, 11.b, 12.8, 13.1, 16.10, 17.8

Uganda Bureau Of Statistics

Uganda Bureau Of Statistics

Mr. Simon Kyewalyanga

Social Surveys and Censuses

Senior Statistician

+256 772 511682

P.O.Box 7186, Kampala

simon.kyewalyanga@ubos.org

Definition:

The proportion of individuals aged 15 years and above who own a mobile telephone, by sex is defined as the ‘share of the population who own a mobile phone for the relevant age group, by sex.

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Concepts:

An individual owns a mobile cellular phone if he/she has a mobile cellular phone device with at least one active SIM card for personal use. Mobile cellular phones supplied by employers that can be used for personal reasons (to make personal calls, access the Internet, etc.) are included. Individuals who have only active SIM card(s) and not a mobile phone device are excluded. Individuals who have a mobile phone for personal use that is not registered under his/her name are also included. An active SIM card is a SIM card that has been used in the last three months.

A mobile (cellular) telephone refers to a portable telephone subscribing to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provides access to the PSTN. This includes analogue and digital cellular systems and technologies such as IMT-2000 (3G) and IMT-Advanced. Users of both post-paid subscriptions and prepaid accounts are included.

Number

Not Applicable

Uganda National Household Survey

Data collection includes; survey planning, consultative user needs assessment meetings, survey and sampling design, questionnaire development, pretesting and finalization of questionnaires, recruitment and training of field staff, field data collection and capture, data processing, management, checking and analysis, report writing and production. At each stage, the survey conformed to international best practices in survey implementation.

Sample Design:

The sample was designed to allow generation of separate estimates at the national level, for urban and rural areas and for fifteen sub-regions of Uganda. A two-stage stratified sampling design is used. At the first stage, EAs are grouped by districts of similar socio-economic characteristics and by rural-urban location. The EAs were then drawn using Probability Proportional to size. At the second stage, households which are the ultimate sampling units are drawn using Systematic Random Sampling. The total number of the EAs are selected from the National Population and Housing Census (NPHC) which constituted the sampling frame.

Training and field work:

Team of field supervisors and interviewers are recruited and trained for the main survey. The main approach of the training comprised instructions in relation to interviewing techniques and field procedures, a detailed review of the data collection modules, tests and practice using hand-held Computer Assisted Interviews (CAPI) devices. The training also includes interviews and field practice in selected EAs outside of the main survey sample. Team supervisors are further trained in data quality control procedures and coordination of field activities.

Prior to the main fieldwork, the data collection module are pretested to ensure that the questions are clear, flowing and easily understood by respondents.

Data collection:

The UNHS determined Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex as below; During data collection, the interviewers asked respondents the question about mobile phone ownership as follows; Does [NAME] personally own a mobile phone? 1=Yes (>> FF3), 2= No

Spread over 12 months

Uganda Bureau of statistics

Uganda Bureau of statistics

The UBOS Act 1998 provides for the development and maintenance of the National Statistical System (NSS) to ensure collection, analysis and publication of integrated, relevant, reliable and timely statistical information. It established the Bureau as the coordinating, monitoring and supervisory body for the National Statistical System.

Mobile phone networks have spread rapidly over the last decade and the number of mobile-cellular subscriptions is equal to the number of the people living on earth. However, not every person uses, or owns a mobile-cellular telephone. Mobile phone ownership, in particular, is important to track gender equality since the mobile phone is a personal device that, if owned and not just shared, provides women with a degree of independence and autonomy, including for professional purposes. A number of studies have highlighted the link between mobile phone ownership and empowerment, and productivity growth.

Existing data on the proportion of women owning a mobile phone suggest that less women than men own a mobile phone. This indicator highlights the importance of mobile phone ownership to track and to improve gender equality, and monitoring will help design targeted policies to overcome the gender divide. The collection of this indicator was proposed by the Task Group on Gender of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development.

Not Applicable

PTTn = (Persons owning a phone 15 years and above)/ (Total population 15 years and above)) x 100%

Use observation to validate

ITU Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals 2020:

Quality Management is addressed through a series of activities by the UBOS Top management;

1. The survey implementation is overseen by a Technical Working Group which is constituted using a multi-sectorial approach.

2. The survey report is reviewed by an experienced team at Management level who are in most cases Directors or Heads of departments.

3. Before the report is disseminated, the Deputy Director Reviews and issues clearance.

The UNHS undergoes several stages before production and sharing of the final findings. During the Survey implementation.

1. Consultative user needs assessment meetings are held with all key stakeholders.

2. The survey and sampling design generated using scientific methods as recommended by the Census and Survey Rules and Regulations.

3. The survey staff are trained on the survey tools and the CAPI application before deployment to the field.

4. The questionnaire development follows a multi-stakeholder approach and pretesting helps to establish the relevancy and adequacy of the questions to be used.

5. Senior Supervision is conducted during data collection to ensure that quality data is collected

6. Debriefing meetings are organized with survey staff at agreed intervals to discuss operational and technical field challenges.

7. Data editing, cleaning and coding is undertaken before analysis and report writing

Before dissemination, the report is reviewed and quality assured by the Department of Outreach and Quality Assurance at the Bureau.

Data availability:

In UNHS

Data Series:

2019/20

Data disaggregation:

National, Residence and Sex

None

Uganda National Household Survey reports ( 2019/20) www.ubos.org https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/publications/manual.aspx