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Data hub "Heights and Biological Standard of Living" | |
| Data on heights and the biological standard of
living are among the most important sources of information in social- and
economic-historical research, especially for the pre-statistical period.
The International Economic History Association has taken the initiative to
set up a network of scholars working with this kind of data and establish
a moderated list of datafiles of historical heights. Scholars working in
this field are invited to register their work, and to make their data
bases available through the internet - either on their own webpages (which
may be made accessible via this list) or on our webpages. It is also
possible to send a data set with the obligation that we make it available
only in two or three years after the first major publication. For example,
those who created a very large data set might want to use it not only for
one, but for two or three publications. Those who are interested in
re-using it will still be very interested in this information and it is
important to have a reliable time fram. The long term goal is to enhance
the exchange and (re-)use of these data in order to write truly
international-comparative histories of the development of welfare and
their determinants and consequences. All data bases will not only include
the data themselves, but also descriptions of the way in which they are
constructed, the sources which are used, and relevant publications in
which the data are analysed.
Data formats Excel is our standard format, but as some data sets contain 100000s of cases, the SPSS format is also used. If you want to save SPSS files in another format, you could use software such as STAT Transfer. You can also try out the SPSS evaluation license for 30 days: SPSS download for 30 days
(evaluation license)
Germany Heights of bavarian male conscripts, 19th century German male conscripts in Bavaria (Baten 1999) - Author: Jörg Baten - The datafile (.zip): STATA (zipped) German male prisoners (Baten 1999) - The datafile (.zip): STATA (zipped)
Heights of south-east and south-west german soldiers born in the 18th
century Height of bavarian female convicts born in the 19th century Anthropometric, demographic and economic data on 200 bavarian regions
Heights of pupils from the Hohe Karlsschule (Stuttgart, south-western
Germany) USA - Organisation: National Bureau of Economic research - The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death 1700-2100: Europe,
America, and the Third World. - The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould
Sample Heights of Georgia Convicts (19th century) Heights of Westpoint Cadets (19th century) Heights of Free Blacks from Maryland (19th century) Austria and Habsburg Empire Height of Austrian Army Soldiers (18th/19th century) Age at Menarche of Austrian Woman (late 19th/early 20th century)
Czech male prisoners (Hodinova 2007) France Heights of French Soldiers (17th/18th century) Heights of studendts of the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, 19th century)
Italy Europe Heights of Children from Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Croatia,
Romania (18th century) Many less developed countries: Brazil, India, Nicaragua,... - Organisation: Measure DHS+ - Czech male prisoners (Hodinova 2007) - North Italian soldiers and desertes (Meineke 2008) | |
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