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Summary information

Study title

Harpenden Growth Study, 1949-1969

Creator

Johnson, W., Loughborough University

Study number / PID

9330 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-9330-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The Harpenden Growth Study consisted of 701 white British children, 282 girls and 419 boys, born between 1929 and 1965 (median 1949) and recruited from the Highfield Children’s Home, Harpenden, UK between 1949 and 1969 at ages between 0.9 and 20 years. They were predominantly children of manual workers or the lower middle class. The dataset includes serial anthropometric measurements (e.g., weight, height, and subcutaneous skinfold thicknesses), Tanner stages of pubertal development, and skeletal age estimates from hand-wrist x-rays. In total, there are 8,188 observations (i.e., 11.6 per child on average) making Harpenden one of the most intensive growth studies ever. Data collection ended in 1975. All of the data were collected by a single, highly skilled, and experienced anthropometrist (Reginald Whitehouse) and, as such, are of very high quality.


Main Topics:

  • Anthropometric measurements
  • Children
  • Demography
  • Public health
  • Medical examinations

Topics

General health and well-beingChildrenPublic health

Keywords

MEDICAL EXAMINATIONSCHILDRENSEXGIRLSAGEHEIGHT (PHYSIOLOGY)ANTHROPOMETRIC DATABODY CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENTSWEIGHT MEASUREMENTBOYSWEIGHT (PHYSIOLOGY)PUBERTY

Methodology

Data collection period

01/01/1949 - 31/12/1969

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Individuals
Subnational

Universe

Between 1931 and 1966 (i.e., the approximate birth year range of participants), the population grew from 9,624 to 21,390. Details of the Highfield Children’s Home can be found here: https://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/HarpendenNCH/

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Compilation/Synthesis

Funding information

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Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

  The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

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