Age Heaping Refers to __

question 16

Multiple Choice

Age heaping refers to __.

• A) respondents refusing to report their ages to the survey interviewer
• B) the situation when respondents lie about their ages when answering a survey
• C) irregularities in the age data for a population due to overreporting of certain ages at the expense of other ages
• D) irregularities in the age data of a population because of deficits in certain age groups due to war, violence or immigration
• E) age data that are grouped or rounded into 5-year or 10-year categories

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