Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Round number (ROUND number)

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Section	English 152	Arabic 152	Czech 152	German 152	Spanish 152	French 152	Italian 152	Japanese 152	Portuguese 152	Russian 152	Chinese 152
152-1	round number	أرقام مقربة—أرقام مدورة	zaokrouhlené číslo	runde Zahl	números redondos	nombre rond	cifra tonda	丸めた数	números arredondados	Округленное число	整数
152-2	heaping —digit preference	جاذبية الأرقام المدورة—تراكم حول الأرقام المدورة	preference číslice	Bevorzugung runder Zahlen —Digitalpräferenz	preferencia de dígitos	attraction des nombres ronds	tendenza all'arrotondamento	集積 —末尾数字選好	preferência digital	Аккумуляция	堆积 —数字的偏好
152-3	age heaping	أرقام الجاذبة		Rundung von Altersangaben	números de atracción	nombres attractifs	cifre preferite —cifre simpatiche	年齢集積	preferência digital por idade	Возрастная аккумуляция	年龄堆积
152-4	index of age preference	مؤشر التراكم—قرينة الجاذبية		Rundungsindex	índices de atracción —preferencia de dígitos	indice d’attraction	indici di tendenza all'arrotondamento	年齢選好指標	índices de preferência digital	Коэффициент возрастной аккумуляции	年龄偏好指数
152-5	age misreporting —age reporting bias	أعمار الناقصة—أعمار المنحرفة		Altersangabefehler	error en la declaración de la edad —sesgo en la declaración de la edad			年齢過誤申告 —年齢申告の偏り		Неправильное указание возраста	年龄错报 —年龄申报偏差

It is often necessary to graduate distributions to correct the tendency of people to give their replies in round numbers ¹. Heaping ² or digit preference ² can be found in various duration distributions (e.g., distribution of marriage duration, breastfeeding duration or birth intervals), but is particularly frequent in age distributions and reflects a tendency for people to state their ages in numbers ending with 0, 5, or other preferred digits, but . Age heaping ³ is sometimes measured with indices of age preference ⁴. Age data must often be corrected for other forms of age misreporting ⁵ or age reporting bias ⁵ More...