Tashkent, March 21 -- According to the Agency of Statistics' selective observation, the percentage of men engaging in physical training in Uzbekistan increased from 66 percent in 2021 to 68.8 percent in 2023. The Statistical Agency conducts annual surveys of households, adhering to the recommendations of the World Bank and the UN Economic Commission for Europe. In 2023, 16,000 households were sampled to ensure data quality and coverage of various population categories. Household participation in the monitoring is voluntary, and selected households are monitored for one month before being replaced by others.

Random selection of households is conducted electronically without human intervention, using a specialized program on a computer, an...