{"id":"building-plans","title":"Building plans and permits","description":"Building plans submitted, approved, rejected and deferred, and occupation permits, 2016–2020.","licence":"Figures are official statistics published by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and its partner agencies. Cite UBOS as the source; the links in each dataset point to the original files.","sources":[{"title":"Number of Plans Submitted from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Submitted_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx"},{"title":"Number of Plans Approved from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Approved_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx"},{"title":"Number of Plans Rejected from 2017 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Rejected_from_2017_to_2020.xlsx"},{"title":"Number of Plans Deferred from 2017 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Deferred_from_2017_to_2020.xlsx"},{"title":"Number of Occupational Permits Issued from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Occupational_Permits_Issued_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx"}],"data":{"sources":{"submitted":{"title":"Number of Plans Submitted from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Submitted_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx","updated":"2022-04-27"},"approved":{"title":"Number of Plans Approved from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Approved_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx","updated":"2022-04-26"},"rejected":{"title":"Number of Plans Rejected from 2017 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Rejected_from_2017_to_2020.xlsx","updated":"2022-04-26"},"deferred":{"title":"Number of Plans Deferred from 2017 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Plans_Deferred_from_2017_to_2020.xlsx","updated":"2022-04-26"},"permits":{"title":"Number of Occupational Permits Issued from 2016 to 2020","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Occupational_Permits_Issued_from_2016_to_2020.xlsx","updated":"2022-04-26"}},"submitted":{"years":["2016","2017","2018","2019","2020"],"total":[9191,13951,12765,16461,7291],"categories":{"Residential":[5285,8122,7488,9734,4354],"Commercial":[3149,4207,3506,4733,1983],"Mixed-use":[null,450,752,827,488],"Industrial":[113,188,190,213,57],"Institutional":[466,727,531,611,178],"Others":[178,257,298,343,231]}},"approved":{"years":["2016","2017","2018","2019","2020"],"total":[6528,6808,9868,14681,5437],"categories":{"Residential":[3758,3765,5689,8534,3264],"Commercial":[2236,2450,2907,4361,1487],"Mixed-use":[null,103,527,791,390],"Industrial":[79,null,124,223,39],"Institutional":[323,365,391,508,122],"Others":[132,125,230,265,135]}},"rejected":{"years":["2017","2018","2019","2020"],"total":[426,261,514,49],"categories":{"Residential":[225,165,207,26],"Commercial":[89,47,181,12],"Mixed-use":[43,22,45,7],"Industrial":[24,4,20,0],"Institutional":[29,16,48,2],"Others":[16,7,14,2]}},"deferred":{"years":["2017","2018","2019","2020"],"total":[773,1335,2003,462],"categories":{"Residential":[494,931,1397,215],"Commercial":[156,248,372,153],"Mixed-use":[24,91,137,50],"Industrial":[18,22,33,10],"Institutional":[55,38,57,15],"Others":[26,5,8,19]}},"permits":{"years":["2016","2017","2018","2019","2020"],"total":[328,474,341,529,201],"categories":{"Residential":[120,146,26,46,115],"Commercial":[133,182,290,412,56],"Mixed-use":[null,27,6,16,8],"Industrial":[21,30,12,14,5],"Institutional":[38,64,4,24,13],"Others":[16,25,3,17,4]}},"notes":["Building plans are applications to build, handled by urban authorities. UBOS does not say which councils the tables cover.","Plans approved, rejected or deferred in a year can include plans submitted in earlier years, so they are not shares of that year’s submissions.","An occupation permit certifies that a finished building is safe to use."]}}