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BIOSOCIAL CORRELATES OF STATURE IN A BRITISH NATIONAL COHORT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2004

C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR  and
G. W. LASKER
C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
G. W. LASKER
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
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Abstract

Analyses of height variation using the 1970 UK national cohort study (12,508 children at age 10 and 5470 at age 16) found clear evidence that children of higher socioeconomic status (as measured by social class, crowding, tenure, type of accommodation, income and receipt of government financial assistance) were on average taller than children of lower socioeconomic status but there was little or no difference in average stature between children living in urban or rural areas. Significant differences in height remained for most of the variables after removing the effects of father’s social class suggesting that reliance on social class per se to explain height variation is inadvisable.

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Regular Articles
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 245 - 251
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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