Hi all I would suspect people would know their own age and of course people could lie about their age for various reasons. I think one of the reasons ages are sometimes off is that the census taker asked someone else ie. the kids/neighbors. How many eleven year olds know how old their parents are? Father's out in the far field and maybe mother too and who's left at the house when the census taker arrives? The kid would most likely know how old his siblings were. Barbara Brea CA At 07:40 AM 4/19/02 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Misty, >Yes, that is when you would use abt. I've noticed on the census that the ages >don't coincide with an individual from 10 years before. It must be that >people >didn't tell the truth about their ages (for whatever reason), census taker >mistakes or maybe some people just didn't know their accurate age. Who knows. >Maybe some other people on this list could give a different slant to this.

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