Term:
Age Heaping
Definition:

A general tendency to misreport a preferred number as one’s age or to round one’s age to a number ending with the digits 0 or 5.

Domain:
Population
Source:
UN, Department of Economic and So-cial Affair, Population division, World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision, Standard variants (Updated: 28 June 2011)
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