boas_stature: A subset of stature data from Boas' immigrant study data

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

Description

This subset of Boas' immigrant study data includes all individuals with data on both age and stature.

Usage

boas_stature

Format

A data frame with 12,641 rows and 7 variables:

id

numeric, unique identifier

immgroup

factor, one of "sicilian", "central_italian", "bohemian", "hungarian_slovak", "polish", "scotch", or "hebrew"

sex

factor, "m" or "f"

imm_yr

numeric, immigration year; US-born individuals are coded -999

age

numeric, age in years

stature

numeric, height in cm

usborn

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

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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