Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To use information about the heights of the British since the middle of the eighteenth century to describe their nutritional status and to explore its relationship to the welfare and productivity of that population

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Variables Height, age, occupation of boy and parent, place of residence, date of recruitment, ability to read and write, date of apprenticeship if relevant, whether had smallpox, nearest relative (kinship category, name)

The data were sampled for time periods in which the Society did not change the height standards for

Compilation or synthesis of existing material