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Source: Data used to study white anthropometrics is a subset of a much larger 19th
century prison sample. All available records from American state repositories have been
acquired and entered into a master file. These records include Arizona, California,
Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Washington.
Notes: Stature is in centimeters. The occupation classification scheme is consistent
with Ferrie (1997).