boas_h2: A subset of Boas' immigrant study data suitable for...

In ryanraaum/qmdata: Datasets for Quantitative Methods for Biological Anthropology Course

Description

This subset of Boas' immigrant study data includes only adult children where stature data are available for both parents from what Boas labelled the "Hebrew" immigrant group sample. Between 1880 and 1924, approximately 2.5 million Eastern European Ashkenazim immigrated to the United States, many settling in New York City. Boas' "Hebrew" sample is undoubtedly primarily of this population.

Usage

boas_h2

Format

A data frame with 162 rows and 22 variables:

fam_id2

character, unique family identifier

sex

factor, "m" or "f"

age

numeric, age in years

hd_lng

numeric, head length in mm

hd_wdt

numeric, maximum head width in mm

bizyg

numeric, bizygomatic breadth in mm

stature

numeric, height in cm

cephalic

numeric, cephalic index

wfi

numeric, facial index

usborn

factor, "foreign-born" or "us-born"

m_hd_lng

numeric, mother's head length in mm

m_hd_wdt

numeric, mother's maximium head width in mm

m_bizyg

numeric, mother's bizygomatic breadth in mm

m_stat

numeric, mother's height in cm

m_ceph

numeric, mother's cephalic index

m_wfi

numeric, mother's facial index

f_hd_lng

numeric, father's head length in mm

f_hd_wdt

numeric, father's maximum head width in mm

f_bizyg

numeric, father's bizygomatic breadth in mm

f_stat

numeric, father's height in cm

f_ceph

numeric, father's cephalic index

f_wfi

numeric, father's facial index

Details

This subset is purely for demonstration purposes - researchers should access the full dataset freely accessible at the link below.

Source

Boas, Franz. Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants. New York: Columbia University Press, 1912.

Boas, Franz. “Changes in Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants.” Washington, DC: United States Senate, 1910.

Boas, Franz. “Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants.” American Anthropologist 14, no. 3 (1912): 530–562.

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard. “Heredity, Environment, and Cranial Form: A Reanalysis of Boas’s Immigrant Data.” American Anthropologist 105, no. 1 (March 2003): 125–38. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2003.105.1.125

Gravlee, Clarence C., H. Russell Bernard, and William R. Leonard. “Boas’s Changes in Bodily Form: The Immigrant Study, Cranial Plasticity, and Boas’s Physical Anthropology.” American Anthropologist 105, no. 2 (June 2003): 326–32. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2003.105.2.326

Raw data deposited in openICPSR https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/112086/version/V2/view

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