"When data collectors come to your homes during the census, please... provide them with honest answers to their questions," President Museveni posted on X.

"This is in order to enable them [to] process the most accurate information about you, your household, institutions and community," Mr Museveni said, adding that accurate responses will enable the government to accurately plan the delivery of public services.

Uganda is set to hold the census between 10 and 19 May. It is the sixth census in the country's history and the first that will be done digitally.

The exercise was postponed from the initially scheduled date in August last year due to financial challenges, amid international funding cuts linked to Uganda's controversial anti-homosexuality law.

It is budgeted to cost 134bn Ugandan shillings ($34m; £27m).

Uganda's last census in 2014 placed the population at 36 million.

The state statistics agency estimates that the population has grown by more than 30% since then, and now surpasses 45 million.