Uganda, May 3 -- Ugandans should prepare to answer as many as 178 questions when the long-awaited census exercise gets underway on Friday, next week.

The day has already been designated a public holiday to enable working citizens, guests and refugees to be at their places of abode where enumerators will find them.

These will include homes, lodges, hotels or apartments where interviewees would have spent the night of May 9, which the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) officially calls Census Night.

What this means is that persons who will be counted will be those in Uganda on or before May 9, which is the date that respondents should use when answering the question on where they spent the night.

The place of abode for those in transit ...