Age Heaping Refers to __

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