Age Heaping in the United States Census: 1880-1950

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Abstract
The techniques used and the results obtained in an effort to diagnose and apply corrections to the tendency for people to report their ages to census enumerators in round numbers or in certain even numbers are described. This task was carried out as a means toward another objective [long dash]that of securing reasonably correct single-year age distributions in past censuses in order to estimate the annual births and birth rate in the period before the birth registration area included all the states.
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