kung_adults: Height and weight measurements of the Dobe !Kung adults circa...

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Description

Nancy Howell undertook the research of Dobe !Kung people over an extended peroid. This data is weight and height on four 'campaigns' of measurement in different seasons, and weights taken more frequently. Each respondant is uniquely identificed by a caseid. To remove measuremnt bias this data takes the average height and weight (when recorded) for each individual from this longidinal study. (One would expect weight to fluctuate, but even the height measurments had fluctuations indicating some measurment bais). This dataset retains only adults, so that taking average height and weight would be appropriate. It also includes only individuals with thier sex recorded as either "male" or "female", rather than some entries which had numbers

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 333 observations for 6 variables

Details

Derived from the larger longitidunal dataset with N = 3081 and 33 variables

Source

Measurements of individuals as described in Howell, Demography of the Dobe !Kung, 2000:193-211. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/10398

References

Howell, Nancy. "Demography of the Dobe Kung." Population and Social Structure: Advances in Historical Demography (2000:193-211). Howell, Nancy. Height & Weight Observations. Avaible: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/10398


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