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Anthropometric Source Book - Volume II; A Handbook of Anthropometric Data

This volume contains summary statistics from anthropometric surveys
of 61 military and civilian populations, and constitutes what is probably
the most comprehensive source of summarized body-size data currently in exis-
tence. Material which appears here has been obtained from many original sour-
ces, both published and unpublished. Much of the data comes from the Anthro-
pometric Data Bank, a major collection of body-size data compiled by the
Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio, and the Anthropometric Research Project at Webb Associates. We have
expanded on the Data Bank compilation by adding additional military surveys
and as many surveys of civilian populations as we were able to find. Alto-
gether the data in this volume describe subjects from every populated con-
tinent in the world.

All the data are reported in both metric and in English units. Material
is listed in alphabetical order by variable name, beginning with "Abdominal
Depth, Sitting" and ending with "Wrist Height." For each variable there are
a computer number by which it is also identified in the section on
"Definition of Measurements"; a list of surveys in which that dimension was
measured; a group of summary statistics including the MEAN, STD. DEV.
(standard deviation), COEF. 0F V (coefficient of variation) and N (number of
subjects); and a series of values for the lst, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th,
90th, 95th and 99th percentiles of the given population. Four asterisks in
the "N" column indicates a sample of over 10,000.

If the number of subjects in a given survey exceeded 200 and the first
and 99th percentiles were reported, the remaining percentiles were calcu-
lated according to the statistical procedures reported in Clauser et a1.,
Anthropometry of Air Force Women (1972)- When a percentile value appears
in parentheses for a certain anthropometric dimension, it means that that
value has been computed from the mean and standard deviation rather than
directly from the original data.

The remaining percentile values have been calculated in a number of different
ways, and the reader who wants more information about the techniques used
is referred to the original sources.