Data from the

NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEY

WeightAnd HeightOf Adults

18-74 Years Of Age:

United States, 1971-74

Weight and height measurements of white and bIack adults 18-74

years of age in the United States, 1971-74, are presented and discussed by age, sex, and race and are also compared with measurements of adults of similar ages in the United States, 1960-62.

DHEW Publication No. (PHS) 79-1659

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

Public Health Service

Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology

National Center for Health Statistics

Hyattsvil Ie, Md. May 1979

Series 11

Number 211 ~
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS

DOROTHY P. kICE, Director

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Deputy Director

JACOB J. FELDMAN, Ph. D., Associate Director for Amdysk

GAIL F. FISHER, Ph. D., Associate Director for the Cooperative Health Statistics System

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Acting Associate Director for Data Systems

JAMES T. BAIRD, JR., Ph.D., Associate Director for Internatiomd Statistics

ROBERT C. HUBER, Associate Director for Management

MONROE G. SIRKEN, Ph.D., Associate Director for Mathematical .Stati.sties

PETER L. HURLEY, Associate Director for Operations

JAMES M. ROBEY, Ph.D., Associate Director for Program Development

PAUL E. LEAVERTON, Ph. D., Associate Director for Research

ALIICE HAYWOOD, Information Officer

DIVISION OF HEALTH EXAMINATION STATISTICS

ROBERT S. MURPHY, Director

SIDNEY ABRAHAM, Chiej Nutrition Statistics Branch

KURT R. MAURE~ Acting Chiej Survey planning and Devebpment Branch

DIVISION OF OPERATIONS

HENRY MILLER, Chief Health Examinatwn Fie~ Operations Branch

COOPERATION OF THE U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

In accordance with specifications established by the National Center for Health Statistics, the

Bureau of the Census, under a contractual agreement, participated in the design and selection of

the sample, and carried out the first stage of the field interviewing and certain pats of the

statisticrd processing.

Vital anal Health Statistics-Series 11-No. 211

DHEW Publication No. (PHS) 79-1659

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-12621
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Abraham, Sidney.

\Veight and height of adults 18-74 ycal-s of” +~c, United States, 1971-74.

(Vital and health statistics: Series 11, I)ata from the National Health Sur\cy; no. 21 I j

(DHEW publication; (PHS] 79-1 659)

Includes bibliographical references.

1. .4nthropometry–Un ited States . 2. IIealth surve;s-~ni[ed States. I. Johnsf]l~, Clifford

L., joint author. II. Najjar, hlatth~w F’., ,joint authol”. III. Title. I\’. Series: ~’nited States.

NTational Center for Health Statistics. \’ital and health statistics: Series 11, I)ata from the

National Health Survey, Data from the health examination survey: no. 211. IT. LTnitcd

States. Dept. of Health, Education, and l~elfare. DHE\\~ publication; (PIIS) 79-1659.

R.4407.3.A347 no. 211 [GX58.U5] 312’.0973s[573.6]

ISBN 0-8406-0142-5 78-12621
CONTENTS

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ComptisonWlththe HcalthExamination SurVcy(1960-62). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ListofDeta.iledTables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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10.

11.

12.

I. Statistical Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11. DemographicTerrns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

LIST OF FIGURES

Meanwcightinpoundsofadults18-74 years, by age andscx: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . .

Selected estimated percentiles of weight distribution in pounds of adults 18-74 years, by age and

sex: UnitcdStates, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean weight in pounds of adults 18-74 years, by age, sex, and race: United States, 1971 -74....

Selected estimated percentiles of weight dktribution in pounds of men and women 18-74 years,

byageandrace: UnitedStates, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean height in inches of adults 18-74 yeaxs, by agc and sex: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . .

Selected estimated percentiles of height distribution in inches of adults 18-74 years, by age and

sex: UnitedStates, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean height in inches of aduIts 18-74 years, by age, sex, and race: United States, 1971 -74.....

Selected estimated percentiles ofheight distribution ininches ofmen andwomen 18-74years,by

ageandrace: UnitedStates, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean weight in pounds of adults 18-74 years by age and sex in HES (1960-62) and HANES

(1971-74): UnitedStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mean height in inches of adults 18-74 yearn, by age and sex in HES (1960-62) and HANES

(1971-74):UnitedStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relative change in weight with age over the mean for men and women 18-74 years in HES

(1960-62) and HANES(1971-74): UnitedStates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relative change in height with age over the mean for men and women 18-74 years in HES (1960-

62)andHANES (1971-74): UnitedStatcs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1 1
WEIGHT AND HEIGHT OF ADULTS

18-74 YEARS OF AGE

Sidney Abraham, Clifford L. Johnson, and Matthew F. Najjar,

Division of Health Examination Statistics

INTRODUCTION

T~e height and weight measurements in this

report we~e obtained as a part of the Health and

Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES).

HANES is a program in which measures of

nutritional status are collected for a scientifically designed sample representative of the

civilian noninstitutionalized population of the

United States in a broad range of ages, 1-74

years. The survey was also designed to obtain

some information on the general health status of

the entire age group as well as more detailed

health assessment data on those 25 through 74

years of age. A detailed description of the

specific content and plan of operation, including

sample design, has been published. 1

In previous Health Examination Survey programs, the U.S. Bureau of the Census cooperated

in the sample design and in the initial visits and

interviewing at selected eligible households in

the 65 primary sampIing units (PSU’S) throughout the United States. Additional household

visiting, interviewing, history taking, and explaining the examination portion of the program

were performed by members of the field teams

of the mobile examination center. The selected

1National Center for Health Statistics: Plan and operation of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,

United States, 1971-1973. Vital and Health Statktics.

DHEW Pub. No. (HSM) 73-1310. Series 1, Nos. 10a and

10b. Health Services and Mental Health Administration.

Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office, Feb.

1973.

sample persons for whom an appointment could

be made were brought into the specially constructed mobile examination centers which were

moved into a central location in each of the

PSU’S. The teams which traveled to the various

survey locations throughout the country included professional and paraprofessional medical

and dental examiners along with technicians,

interviewers, and other staff.

The probability sample design used in the

study provided for a higher sampling ratio of the

poor, preschool children, women of childbearing

ages, and the elderly than of others in the civilian noninstitutionaIized population.

Field data collection operations for the first

HANES survey were started in April 1971 and

completed in June 1974. Of the 28,043 persons

aged 1-74 years who were selected in the

national probability sampIe to represent the 194

million persons in that age group in the civiIian

noninstitutionalized population, 20,749, or 74

percent, were examined. When adjustments are

made for the differential sampling ratios used to

ensure oversampling among the poor, preschool

children, women of childbearing age, and the

elderly, the effective response rate is 75 percent.

Among those 18-74 years of age at the time of

interview for whom height and weight determinations were made, there were 13,645 examined

out of the probability sample of 19,572 selected

to represent the 128 million persons of those

ages in the population. This is an unadjusted

response rate of 70 percent and an effective

adjusted response rate of 70 percent.
In this report, weight and height data are

analyzed and discussed by age, sex, and race.

The techniques of measurement are discussed.

The present findings are compared with the

Health Examination Survey (HES) of 1960-62.2

Analysis of weight and height studies with

variables other than age, race, ancl sex will be

presented in future reports. Consideration of

body composition and configuration, of obesi~y,

and of nutritional status will also be subjects of

future reports.

METHODS

The examinees changed from their street

clothing into disposable paper examination uniforms and foam rubber slippers designed to

facilitate and standardize various elements of the

examination. Body measurements were made at

various times throughout the day at each examination center and in different seasons of the

year; thus body measurements were not standardized with regard to diurnal and seasonal

variations. Weights vary between winter and

summer and may differ depending upon recency

of food and water intake.

Height

For persons aged 18-74 years, height was

measured with the examinee wearing disposable

foam rubber slippers, standing with feet tolgether, back and heels against the upright bar of

the height scale, head approximately in the

Frank fort horizontal plant (“look straight

ahead”), and erect (“stand up tall” or “stand up

real straight” with some assistance and demonstration when necessary). However, upward

pressure was not exerted by the examiner on the

subject’s mastoid processes to purposefully

“stretch everyone in a standard manner, ” as i~s

recommended by some.

2National Center for Health Statistics: Weight,

height, and selected body dimensions of adults, United

States, 1960-1962, by H. W. Stoudt et al. Vital and

Health Statistics. Series 1l-No. 8. DHEW Pub. No,,

(HRA) 76-1074. Health Resources Administration.

Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office, June

1965.

The equipment consisted of a Ievel[ platform

to which was attached a vertical bar with a steel

tape. Attached to the vertical bar peWendicularly was a horizontal bar which was brought

down snugly on the examinee’s head. Attached

to another bar in the same plane as the’ horizontal measuring bar was a Polaroid camera which

recorded the subject’s identification number

next to the pointer on the scale giving a precise

reading. The camera not only gave a permanent

record minimizing observer and recording error

but, by sliding up and down with a h,brizontal

bar and always being in the same plane, also

completely eliminated parallax. That is, if the

pointer had been in the space in front of the

scale, it would have been read too high if the

observer had looked up at the scale from beIow

or too low if read down from above.

Weight

A Toledo self-balancing scale that mechanically printed the weight to one-quarter of a

pound directIy onto the permanent record was

used. This direct printing was used to minimize

observer and recording errors. The scale was

calibrated with a set of known weights, 1and any

necessary fine adjustments were made at the

beginning of each new trailer location, i.e.,

approximately every month. The r’ecorded

weight was later transferred to a punched card

to the nearest 0.25 pound (lb.). The total

weights of all clothing worn ranged from 0.20 to

0.62 lb.; this was not deducted from weights

presented in this report. (The weights, then, are

0.20 to 0.62 lb. above nude weight recorded to

the nearest 0.25 lb.). The examination clothing

used was the same throughout the year so there

is no seasonal variation in the weight of clothing.

FINDINGS

Weight

Age and sex. –The estimated numbers and

percent distributions of men and women aged

18-74 years in each of the weight gropps are

presented in tables 1-3. Table 4 summarizes

these distributions in terms of basic statistics for

examined persons by age for men and women.

2
Table 4 shows that the mean weight of men

aged 18-74 years was 172 pounds. Table 4 and

figure 1 show that the mean weight of men increased from 165 pounds in age group 18-24

years to 178 pounds in age group 35-44 years.

Thereafter it decreased with age to 175 pounds

in age group 45-54 yearn, 171 pounds at 55-64

years, and a low of 164 pounds in the oldest age

group measured, 65-74 years.

The mean weight of women was 143

pounds, 29 pounds less than that for men (table

4). Table 4 and figure 1 show that the mean

weight increased with age from a low of 132

pounds at 18-24 years to a high of 149 pounds

at ages 45-64 years and then declined to 146

pounds in the oldest age group.

The age patterns of men and women described previously for mean weight were also

generally evident when the percentiles at both

the upper and lower ends of the distribution

were examined (table 4, figure 2).

Race, sex, and age. –Estimated numbers and

percent distributions of white and black adults

in each of the age groups according to their

weights are shown in tables 5-10. Table 11 and

figure 3 summarize these distributions. The

pattern in mean weight with age found for adult

men in the United States was also found for

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Figure 1. Mean weight in pounds of adults 18-74 years, by age

and sex: United States, 1971-74

black and for white males separately. Mean

weight increased among white men from a low

of 165 pounds at 18-24 years to a high of 178

pounds at 35-44 years. Among bIack males,

mean weight increased consistently with age

from 166 pounds at age 18-24 to 182 pounds at

age 35-44 years. The mean weights of white men

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Figure 2. Selected estimated percentiles of weight distribution in pounds of adults 18-74 years, by age and sex: United States, 1971-74

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Figure 3. Mean weight in pounds of adults 18-74 years, by

age, sex, and race: United States, 1971-1974

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decreased consistently with age from 45-54

years of age on. A similar pattern was not evident for black men. There was little consistent

difference among the varicrus age groups between the mean weights of black and white men.

Data on weight by age for black and white

women tend to parallel with those shown for

men, with the exception that the increase in

mean weight of white women continued up to

the age group 45-54 years and then declined

(table 11). The means for black women showed

a plateau effect and a slight decrease, however, at

each age black women had larger mean weights

than white women, with the differences averaging about 20 pounds for the age groups 35-64

years.

The interracial differences in weight for both

men and women were generaHy greater, particularly for women, at the upper end of the distribution than at the lower end (figure 4). The

weight distribution for black men had more

variability than that for white men. The standard deviation of the weight distribution is greater at each age group for black men than for

white men, as is the distance between ~e 95th

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Figure 4. Selected estimated percentiles of weight distribution in pounds of men and women 18-74 years, bv age and rac$: United

States, 1971-74
and 5th percentiles, which represents about 90

Percent of the men in the ~o~ulation. This

pattern is also

compared with

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observed for black women when

white women.

Age and sex. –The estimated numbers and

percent distributions of men and women aged

18-74 years by height are presented in tables

12-14. Table 15 and figure 5 summarize these

distributions in terms of basic statistics for

examined persons by age for men and women.

The meam height for men aged 18-74 years

was 69.0 inches. The highest mean height, 69.7

inches, was found in the youngest age group,

18-24 years, and is 2.4 inches taller than the

mean height in age group 65-74 years, 67.3

inches. This corresponds with a small decrease in

height with increasing age, which averages less

than one-half inch per decade of age over the

range 18-74 years,

For women the mean height was 63.6

inchei, 5.4 inches less than the mean height for

men. Th? mean height for women was highest,

64.3 inches, in the youngest age group, as it was

for men. The mean height decreased sIightIy to

64.1 inches at 25-34 years, remained constant at

35-44 years, and then declined to 63.6 inches at

45-54 years, 62.8 inches at 55-64 years, and

62.3 inches in the oldest age group, 65 years and

over. The difference between the youngest and

oldest age group is 2.0 inches. The decrease in

height with age averages less than one-half inch

per decade over the age range of 18-74 years

(figure 5).

The age patterns of men and women described previoudy for the mean height were also

generally evident when the percentiles at the

upper and lower ends of the distribution were

examined (figure 6).

Race, sex, and age. –The estimated population of white and black adults by height is

presented in tables 16-19 and equivalently as

percent distributions in tables 20 and 21. hiean

heights are shown by age for white and black

men and women in table 22 and figure 7. In

each of the five age groups in the age range

18-64 years, white men were taller than black

men, The average difference between heights of

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Figure 5. Mean height in inches of adults 18-74 years, by age

and sex: United States, 1971-74 -

~vhite and black men in these age groups was

about one-haIf inch, ~vhich difference could be

attributed to sampling variability. At age group

65-74 years, the mean height for black and

white men was the same. This pattern by age

and race is not observed for women, but average

differences for women, as for men, were small.

At age groups 18-24 and 25-3-+ years, white

\vomen tvere, on the average, 0.25 inch taller

than black women. At ages 35-44 years, black

women ~yere f). 1 inch ta]]er thm white women;

at ages 45-54 years, they were 0.2 inch taller;

and at ages 65-74 years, they were 0.3 inch

taIler. At ages 55-64 years, the mean height for

both races was the same. Small differences such

as these couId easily arise through sampling

error, and there seems to be no justification for

stating that there is any difference in average

height between black and white women.

The decrease in mean heigh~ with age shown

previously for the total population of men is

also obsened for black and white men separately. This pattern is also et’iclent for black and

white women with the exception of the mean

height for black women at age 35-44 years.

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Figure 6. Selected estimated percentiles of heignt distribution in inches of adults 18-74 years, by age and sex: United Statesr 1971-74

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Figure 7. Mean height in inches of adults 18-7’4 years, by age,

sex, and race: United States, 1971-74

decline.

Interracial differences for men of ages 45-74

years were greater at the upper end of the height

distribution than at the lower end. This picture

was reversed for men at the Iower ages. The

interracial differences in height, however, were

small and could easily arise through sampling

error (figure 8).

The differences between white and bIack

women discussed previously for the mean of the

height distribution were also observed at about

the same order of magnitude for the Iower end

of the distribution, for the median, and for the

upper end of the distribution (figure 8).

Comparison With the Health

Examination Survev (1960-62)

Comparison is made here of the present findings for the adult population of the United

States with those from the previous Health

Examination Survey, 1960-62. Table ~!3 shows

the number of persons examined with height

and weight measurements

1960-62 and 1971-74.

by sex and age for

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Figure 8. Selected estimated percentiles of height distribution in inches of men end women 18-74 years, by age and race: United States,

1971-74

Findings from the present study show that

aduIts in the United States weighed more, on the

average, than their counterparts in 1960-62. The

HANES data on weights for men are consistently higher by an average of 6 pounds across

the age range 18-74 years; for women, they are

higher by an average of 3 pounds for this age

range.

The pattern of differences in average weight

for men shows a slight variation with age. The

differences ranged from an average of 5 pounds

in ages 45-54 years to an average of 8 pounds in

ages 35-44 years. For women, the differences in

average weight ranged from less than 1 pound in

ages 55-64 years to an average of 6 pounds in

ages 25-44 years (table 23, figure 9).

Tables 24 and 25 show cumulative percent

distributions of weight for men and women by

age in 1960-62 and 1971-74. In the most recent

survey, 1971-74, the percent of men in each

age group at the cutoff points indicated were

greater than the corresponding percents of those

in HES, 1960-62. This observation was also

generally true for women with the exception of

women ages 45 years and oIder.

The pattern of differences in weight at

various cutoff points found between the two

surveys for total maJe adults in the United States

was also consistently found for white males

(table 26) but not for black males. Relatively

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AGEIN YEARS

Figure 9. Mean weight in pounds of adults 16-74 years, by age

and sex in HES (1 860-62) and HANES (1971-74): United

States

L J

7
more black males ages 25-34 weighing 160

pounds or more were found in HISS, 1960-62,

than in HANES, 1971-74. There were also somle

indications of this pattern in percent of males c)f

weights 170 pounds or more in ages 25-44 and

45-54 years. The proportion with those body

weights in both HES and HANES was greater

among white men than among black men in

almost all age groups.

The proportion of white and black females

in ages through 44 years having body weights

above 140 and 150 pounds was greater in

HANES than in HES (table 27). This pattern in

difference in proportion was not consistent in

the older ages (tables 28-30). There was a greater

percent of women at ages 18-44 years who

weighed 170 pounds or more, a crude estimate

of obesity, in HANES than in HES. Women at

these ages were heavier on the average than

those of 10 years ago, particularly black wometl.

The proportion of women with these boay

weights in both HES and HANES was greater

among black women than among white women

in all age groups.

Although heights of U.S. adults as measured

from the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-74, were taller than those from the

Health Examination Survey, 1960-62, the differ..

ences are numerically small. HANES data for

men’s heights range from less than one-half inch

to an inch taller than HES data. Corresponding

values for women are from less than one-half

inch to slightly more than three-quarters of an

inch taller (table 23, figure 10).

TabIes 31 and 32 show the cumulative percent distributions of height for men and women

by age in 1960-62 and 1971-74. Men and

women in HANES, 1971-74, were taller than

those in HES, 1960-62. Fifty percent of the men

in HANES were 69 inches or more as compared

with 38 percent in HES across the age range of

18-74 years. The corresponding values for

HANES and HES for heights of 70 inches or

more are 36 and 28 percent, respectively. In this

age range, 45 percent of the women in HANES

were 64 inches or more as compared with 37

percent for HES. The corresponding values for

HANES and HES for 65 inches or more are 30

and 21 percent, respectively. The proportions of

men and women whose height exceeded any

~,

‘.+

HES, 1960.62

-- Men

--- Women

HAN ES, 1971-74

— Men

--- Women

: 64

1

--------- . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ..

- --------- -%.. ...

z

z -.- %.

63 .. ..

-.

-. ..... . . .

-.. %...

62 ‘.

-.

-.

61

~,, ,1,’,

.- .

60

0

18.24 25.34 35.44 45.54 55.64 65.74

AGE IN YEARS

Figure 10. Mean height in inches of adults 18-74 years, by age

and sex in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74): United

States

other specified height may be found in tables

31-32.

Tables 33-36 show by age the percent of

white and black men and women having heights

of 69 inches or more and 64 inches or more.

(These are the median heights for men and

women, respectively.) In most ages and in each

of the sex and race groups the proportions of

persons above these selected heights were greater

in 1971-74 than in 1960-62. The proportion of

persons whose heights exceeded any other specified level may be calculated from the data

presented in table 37.

The HANES data on weigh,ts for me,n were

consistently higher by an average of 6 pounds

across the age range 18-74 years. The; corresponding values for women were higher by an

average of 3 pounds’ over the same age range.

Heights of adults as measured during HANES

were slightly greater than those from HES. Since

weight increases per inch of height usually range

on an average from 4 to 5 pounds in mien and

from 2 to 4 pounds in women, it can be stated

that the increase in average weight for the population between 1960-62 and 1971-74 can be

8
attributed only in part to a corresponding increase in height.

‘The pattern of weight gain in the middle

years and gradual decline with increasing age, in

both surveys for men as well as for women, is

illustrated in figure 11, which shows the proportionate change in average weight with age

over the mean for the group aged 18-24 years.

This trend in both surveys is influenced by secular changes in body size for successive generations represented in this cross-sectional data.

Women in HES generally attained their maximum weight about two decades later than men

did and had a greater relative gain with age. The

latter pattern is also evident for women in

HANES but they attained their mzcsimum

weight about one decade later than men did.

This delay, in both periods, may be attributed to

the greater effort of weight-conscious younger

women. Here again, it is not possible to determine from the data how much these findings

may be influenced by any changes in body size

for the successive generations in this crosssection of the population.

On the average, the relative decrease of

height with age from 45 years or more was similar for men and women in both surveys (figure

12).

Comparable response rates and similar

measurement processes for recording height and

weight are necessary to compare the body

measurements from the t]i’o sunwys.

The HES sample had a response rate of 95

percent intervie~ved and 86 percent examined, a

highly representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United

States. The corresponding rates for HANES were

over 95 percent interviewed and 70 percent examined. The lower examination rate in the

HANES sample than in the HES sample might

have biased the mean \veight–but not the mean

height–downward because heavier persons, who

are reported to be associated with more medical

problems, might be less likely to come for examination. This is, however, unlikely, because an

&alysis of medicaI histories comparing the nonexaminees with the examinees indicates no Iarge

differences between the nonexamined group and

the examined group for the medical statistics

compared. For example, 12 percent of the persons examined reported having an illness or condition which interfered with their eating as com1

Men Women

20 20

15 15

10 10

k

5 5

z

:0 0

&

5

10

15

.20

I

-5

.10

.15

-20

1

18-24 2534 35-M 4554 55+34 65-74 18-24 2534 35-M 45-54 5564 6574

AGE IN YEARS AGE (?4YEARS

Figure 11. Relative change in weight with age over the mean for men and women 18-74 years in HES (1860-82) and HANES (1971 -74);

United States

9
r

10,

5

0

.5

1.0

k

z

: 1,5

E

2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

4,0

0,6

n

HES

Men W,3men

Ellis

126

3.6

I I I I I I

1824 2534 3544 4554 5564 6574

AGE IN YEARS

1.0 HANES

r

1

.5

0.14

0.31 0.31 ..L

0,86

1.0 —

1,5 —

.2.0 —

2.0

.2.5 –

2.3

3,0

1-

3.5

}

I3,1

1,4

.,,0 ~

1824 2534 35.44 45.54 5564 ‘65.74

AGE IN YEARS

Figure 12. Relative change in height with age over the mean for men and women 18-74 years in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74);

United States

pared with 10 percent of persons not examined.

The percent of examined persons who reported

ever being told by a doctor that they had arthritis was 20 percent; the proportion for high

blood pressure was 18 percent; and the proportion for diabetes was 4 percent. The corresponding percents for nonexamined persons were:

arthritis, 18 percent; high blood pressure, 22

percent; and diabetes, 4 percent.

Measurement processes employed in both

surveys for heights and weights were similar,

highly standardized, and closely controlled. Two

pounds were deducted from HES data to allow

for weight of clothing. Total weights of all clothing for HANES ranged from 0.20 to 0.62 pound,

which was not deducted from weight. In both

surveys, height was measured without shoes.

SUMMARY

Findings on height and weight among adults

in the civilian noninstitutionaIized population of

the United States obtained in the Health and

Nutrition Examination Survey of 1971-74 are

presented and analyzed in this report. Major

findings are as follows:

. Men average 172 pounds in weight, with

about 90 percent falling between 128 and 225

pounds. Weight decreases with age from the

maximum average of 178 pounds for those

35-44 years of age to 164 pounds at 65-74 years.

. For white men, the average weight is 173

pounds, with about 90 percent falling between

129 and 224 pounds. Their maximum and

minimum average weight is simiIar to that of all

men within the same age group.

. The average weight of black men decreases

with age from the maximum average of 182

pounds for those 35-44 years of age to 161

pounds at 65-74 years. The overall average

weight is 171 pounds, with about 90 percent

falling between 125 and 239 pounds.

● Women average 143 pounds, with about 90

percent falIing between 104 and 203 pounds.

Their maximum average weight is 149 pounds in

the 45-64 year age group.

● White women average 142 pounds, with

about 90 percent falling between 104 and 199

pounds. Their maximum average weight is 147

pounds for those 45-64 years of age, an increase

of 15 pounds from 132 pounds at 18-24 years.

● About 90 percent of black women faII

between 104 and 228 pounds, with an average

of 156 pounds. The maximum average weight is

169 pounds for those 45-54 years of age, and

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the minimum average weight is 138 pounds a’

18-24 years.

● Men average 69.0 inches in height, ~vitli

some 90 percent between 64.4 and 73.6 inches

Their average height decreases with age from a

masimum of 69.7 inches to to 67.3 inches.

. The average height for ~vhite men is simila’

to that of all men, 69.1 inches, with about 9(

percent falling bet-ween 64.6 and 73.6 inche:

The average height of white men ranges from -i

maximum of 69.8 inches at ages 18-24 years to

67.3 inches in the oldest age group.

. Black men average 68.6 inches, with about

90 percent between 64.1 inches and 73.3 inches.

Average height decreases with age from a mzwimum of 69,5 inches to 67.3 inches.

. Women average 63,6 inches in height. Ho\vever, there is a general decline in stature with

age, beginning with 64.3 inches at 18-24 years

and falling to 62.3 inches at 65-74 years. About

90 percent of all adult women are between 59.5

and 67.8 inches in height.

. For white women, the average height is 63.7

inches, ~vith some 90 percent between 59.5 and

67.8

64.3

62.3

inches. The m~ximum average height is

inches at ages 18-24 years and declines to

inches at ages 65-74 years.

. For black women, the average height is 63.7

inches, with some 90 percent between 59.6 and

67.8 inches. The maximum average height of 64.2

inches at ages 35-44 years declines to 62.6 inches

at ages 65-74 years.

● For the age range 18-74 years, about 50

percent of men are 69.0 inches or taller and 45

percent of women are 64.0 inches or taller in

HANES as compared with 38 percent of men

and 37 percent of women in HES.

● For the age range 18-74 years, about 49

percent of the men are 170 pounds or more and

45 percent of the women are 140 pounds or

more in HANES as compared with 45 percent of

men and 45 percent of women in HES.

. At ages 18 through 44 years, there is a

greater percent of women weighing 170 pounds

or more in HANES than in HES; relatively more

\vomen, particularly black women, are heavy,

possible obese, than was the case about 10 yews

ago.

. The masimum average weight of women in

HES, 150 pounds, is in the 55-64 year age

group, or about 20 years later than that for men.

The m~ximum weight for women in HANES

occurs in 45-64 years, or about 10 years Iater

than that for men.

—ooo —

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LIST C)F DETAILED TABLES

1. Estimated number of men aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . , . . . .

2. Estimated number of women aged 18-74 years, by age and waight: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . , . . . . . . , . . ~ .

3. Percent distribution of adults aged 18-74 year~by sex and weight, according to age: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . .

4. Waight in pounds of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex and age: sample size, estimated population in thousands, maan, standard

deviation, standard error of the mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5. Estimated number of white men aged 18-74 years, by age ancl weight: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

6. Estimated number of black men aged 18-74 yaars, by age and weight: United States, 197? -74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7. Estimated number of white women aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .

8. Estimated number of black women aged 18-74 years, by age =Ind weight: United States, 1971-74. . . , . . . . . . . . . . . .

9. Percent distribution of white adults aged 18-74 years by sex and weight, according to age: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . .

10, Percant distribution of black adults aged 18-74 years by sex and weight, according to age: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . .

11, Weight in pounds of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex, race, and age: sample size, estimated population in thousands, mean,

standard deviation, standard error of the mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12. Estimated number of men aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13. Estimated numbar of women aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14. Percent distribution of adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according to age: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . .

15, Height in inches of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex and aga: sample size, estimated population in thousands, mean, standard

deviation, standard error of the mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16. Estimated number of white men aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17. Estimated number of black men aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18. Estimated number of white women aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

19. Estimated number of black women aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . .“. . . . . . . . . ,

20. Percent distribution of white adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according to age: United States, 1971-74. . . , . . .

21. Percent distribution of black adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according to aga: United States, 1971-74. . . , . . .

22. Height in inches of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex, rata, and age: sample size, estimated population in thousands, mean,

standard deviation, standard error of the mean, and selacted percentiles: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

23. Comparison of mean height? and weights in HES (196062) anc[ HANES (1971 -74), by sex and age: United States . . . , . . .

24. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of men, in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971 -74), by age: Unitecl

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

12
25. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of women in H ES (1960%2) and HANES (1971-74), by age: United

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

26. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of white men in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), byaga:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

27. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of black men in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age.

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

28. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of white women in HES(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), bya~:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

29. Cumulative percent distribution of weightin pounds of black women in HES(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

30. Percent of adults aged 18-74 years above selected weights in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971 -74), byage, sex, and race:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

31. Cumulative percent distribution ofheight ininches ofmenin HES(1960%2) and HAN ES(1971-74), by age: United States..

32. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of women in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971 -74), by age: United

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

33. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of white men in HES(1960-62) and HANES(1971-74), by age: United

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

34. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of black men in HES(1960-62) and HAN ES(1971-74), by age: United

States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

35. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of white women in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971 -74), by age:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

36. Cumula~ive percent distribution of height in inches of black women in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

37. Percent of adults aged 18-74 years above selected heights in HES (1960$2) and HANES (1971 -74), byage, sex, and race:

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

36

37

37

38

38

39

40

40

41

41

42

42

43

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Table 1. Estimated number of men aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United States, .,--- -.

Weight in pounds

All weights-----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

ilo-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more-----------------

lY1l-/4

All

ages 1.8-24

18-74 years

years

Age of men

25-34 35-44 45-54

years years years

55-64

years

Estimated number in thousands

4%!

821 2%

2,359 686

3,888 1,115

6,203 1,795

8,492 1,959

8,762 :1,818

8,349 :1,198

6,902 883

5,141 706

3,339 357

2,329 333

1,636 268

879 173

439

1,067 1;:

13,002

~;

107

375

740

1,328

2,101

1,518

1,676

1,448

1,218

740

547

445

217

4::

10,692

4

::

356

493

694

1,082

1,648

1,473

1,507

1,224

962

319

355

122

2:;

11,150

9

l%

368

;;;

1,292

1,662

1,564

1,491

1,140

564

622

364

197

1:2

8,998

53

118

168

254

543

877

1,125

1,297

1,662

1,044

513

515

322

166

139

1;;

65-74

years

5,496

20

l:;

320

423

616

933

819

776

529

340

201

186

38

31

I(j

32
Table 2. Estimated number of women agedl~~i7$4years, by age and weight: United States,

Weight in pounds

All weights-----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250-259---------------------

260-269---------------------

276-279---------------------

280 or more-----------------

Age of women

w 35-44 45-54

years years

Estimated number in thousands

554

1,585

4,516

8,722

10,733

11,364

8,084

6,021

4,994

3,404

2,301

1,857

1,022

929

535

399

244

109

130

122

301

55-64

years

128

546

1,317

2,559

2,391

2,428

1,282

672

589

348

177

186

13,933

3%

1,200

2,147

2,669

2,298

1,450

970

634

657

439

238

223

121

165

x

49

27

H

11,576

1:;

527

1,314

1,966

2,011

1,390

1,109

750

576

428

349

248

249

104

111

71

;;

1%

12,163

1:;

548

1,240

1,707

1,816

1,601

1,349

1,285

653

488

490

144

298

80

R

::

43

25

10,052

180

205

573

770

1,086

1,719

1,221

1,136

1,045

643

462

372

253

119

130

19

7

4i

62

65-74

years

7,277

1%

351

692

914

1,092

1,$:;

691

527

307

222

108

69

34

35

13

11

4

1;

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Table 3. Percent distribution of adults aged 18-74 years by sex and weight, according

to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and weight in pounds

Men

All weights -----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more-----------------

Women

All weights -----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239-------------,-------

240-249---------------------

250-259---------------------

260-269---------------------

270-279---------------------

280 or more-----------------

Age of adults

a~

Percent distribution

----- ---- -

Iuu.uu

0.14

0.66

1.35

3.84

6.30

10.13

13.85

14.37

13.68

11.37

8.42

5.50

3.81

2.69

1.43

0.72

1.74

100.00

0.80

2.32

6.60

12.77

15.75

16.68

11.95

8.93

7.37

5.01

3.42

2.7.6

1.52

1.39

0.79

0.59

0.36

0.17

0.19

0.17

0.46

lW.OU

0.54

1.76

5.75

9.36

15.45

16.41

15.46

10.21

7.67

7.00

3.12

2.85

2.29

1.44

0.64

1.05

100.00

0.99

4.28

10.18

19.74

18.30

18.70

9.99

5.33

4.58

2.66

1.38

‘L.48

0.38

0.57

0.17

(1.56

0.10

0.10

0.15

0.07

0.29

100.00

0.3;

0.91

2.92

5.76

10.24

16.21

11.67

12.81

11.00

9.36

5.63

4.22

3.38

1.71

0.75

3.12

100.00

0.49

2.72

8.62

15.50

19.24

16.44

10.42

6.93

4.54

4.68

3.12

1.70

1.60

0.87

1.17

0.52

0.36

0.35

0.19

0.17

0.37

100.00

Ow

0.75

3.34

4.39

6.40

10.29

15.54

13.82

14.32

11.34

9.05

2.92

3.40

1.06

0.77

2.38

100.00

0.22

1.40

4.55

11.34

16.96

17.37

12.00

9.59

6.49

4.98

3.70.

3.01

2.14

2.15

0.90

0.96

0.62

0.12

0.22

0.34

0.94

100.00

0!;:

0.96

3.30

5.18

8.03

11.59

14.89

14.02

13.36

10.21

5.06

5.57

3.26

1.77

0.68

1.28

100.00

0.59

0.87

4.51

10.27

14.06

14.98

13.23

11.11

10.52

5.30

4.01

4.01

1.17

2.42

0.66

0.76

0.71

0.20

0.10

0.32

0.20

100.00

0.60

1.31

1.86

2.83

6.03

9.72

12.48

14.42

18.49

11.62

5.72

5.71

3.60

1.85

1.54

1.03

1.19

100.00

1.77

2.04

5.69

7.59

10.72

17.08

12.13

11.32

10.38

6.36

4.65

3.76

2.54

1.24

1.30

0.19

0.07

0.43

OR

100.00

0.36

1.39

2.59

5.83

7.68

11.21

16.98

14.90

,14.11

9.63

6.17

3.66

3.38

0.68

0.57

0.28

0.58

100.00

1.10

2.57

4.82

9.51

12.54

15.01

35.66

10.79

9.49

7.25

4.21

:3.05

1.49

0.96

0.46

0.48

0.18

0.15

0.0

Ow

NOTE: Percents may not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

16
Table 4. Weight in pounds of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex and age:

estimated population in thousands, mean, standard deviation, standard

mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74

Sex and age

Men —

L8-74 years---

18-24 years---------

25-34 years---------

35-44 yeara---------

45-54 yeara---------

55-64 years---------

65-74 years---------

Women

18-74 years---

18-24 years---------

25-34 yeazs---------

35-44 years---------

45-54 years---------

55-64 years---------

65-74 years---------

Sample

size

5,260

772

804

665

765

597

1,657

8,411

1,524

1,896

1,:5;

670

1,822

Estimated

popu]:tion

thousands

61,091

11,753

13,002

10,692

l;,;M;

5;496

67,925

12,924

13,933

11,576

12,163

10,052

7,277

sample size,

error of the

I I I

Standard Percentiles

Mean Standard

deviati.n :~;e:

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 9Oth 95th

172

165

176

178

175

171

164

143

132

140

148

149

149

146

31.1

29.6

35.0

30.0

29.2

30.0

27.0

32,3

27.4

32.0

35.0

32.0

33.3

29.1

0.64

1.64

1.45

1.56

1.12

1.28

0.88

0.53

0.69

0.82

1.14

1.39

1.26

1.07

Weight in pounds

128

124

132

132

130

125

122

104

100

103

109

109

104

105

137

132

140

143

139

137

130

110

106

109

114

114

111

112

T

152 170

145 161

153 172

160 176

157 175

152 170

147 163

=k114 128

119 132

124 139

127 145

128 144

126 142

189

180

193

196

192

187

180

159

142

152

163

164

166

163

211

204

217

213

215

208

198

185

163

181

195

191

191

183

225

222

233

225

225

222

211

203

181

202

215

213

203

195

NOTE: Total weights of all clothing ranged from 0.20 to 0.62 lb., which is not deducted from weights shown in table.

17
Table 5. Estimated number of white men aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United

States, 1971-74

——

Weight in pounds

All weights -----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219----- ----------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more -----------------

Age of white men

1

All

ages

18-74

years

—

18-24 25-34

years years

I

35-44 45-54

years years

55-64

years

Estimated number in thousands

54,60611 10,271

r

3:;

585

-

12:

1,983 501

3,115 957

5,265 1,523

7,598 1:,745

7,953 1,,623

7,720 1,039

6,572 802

4,692 676

3,074 318

2,108 298

1,557 261

712 173

398

824 ;;

11,594

2;

28

299

602

1,159

1,837

1,356

1,562

1,400

1,091

712

479

431

163

99

350

9,532

::

324

333

569

1,033

1,538

1,347

1,455

1,035

883

254

355

66

81

198

10,039

8;

3;:

385

744

1,168

1,446

1,469

1,428

1,087

515

593

311

176

68

115

8,200

1::

134

244

489

723

957

1,227

1,572

989

497

465

322

166

111

59

78

65-74

years

4,970

19

1;:

264

349

547

;;;

731

498

306

181

162

;:

16

28

18
Table 6. Estimated number of black men aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United

States, 1971-74

Weight in pounds

All weights-----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more-----------------

All

ages

18-74

years

5,753

1

1%

211

642

853

738

795

579

323

;;;

204

1;;

2:;

Age of black men

Estimated number in thousands

1,270

i

34

X

244

187

192

156

81

::

35

7

6<

1,232

4;

1?;

169

212

155

114

1%

28

!:

54

54

1,005 1,057 703 486

19
Table 7. Estimated number of white women aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United

States, 1971-74

Weight in pounds

All weights-----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250-259---------------------

260-269---------------------

270-279---------------------

280 or more-----------------

Age of white women

—

.All

ages 1/3-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

—

Estimated number in thousands

60,011

496

1,345

3,968

8,053

9,937

10,138

7,332

5,274

4,324

2,859

1,875

1,531

804

685

437

317

179

::

2;!

11,161

——

101

462

1,124

2,233

2,090

2,190

1,112

573

503

296

134

124

25

61

22

38

10

13

;

32

——

12,161

3!:

1,072

2,019

2,489

1,903

1,289

809

524

525

322

204

193

106

118

::

49

:;

10,095

1:?

457

1,202

1,904

1,757

1,243

928

631

439

342

308

160

193

81

85

59

:

l%

10,879

;+

504

1,194

1,559

1,676

1,508

1,232

1,090

506

438

408

120

227

x

49

23

8

1!

9,112

180

186

511

748

1,023

1,590

1,125

1,021

959

614

374

300

213

1::

19

7

4i

1;

6,603

:

J:

300

657

872

1,022

1,055

711

617

479

265

187

;;

30

32

13

4

2

2

13

20
Table 8. Estimated number of black women aged 18-74 years, by age and weight: United

States, 1971-74

Weight in pounds

All weights-----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169----------------------

170-179---------------------

i80-i89---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250-259---------------------

260-269---------------------

270-279---------------------

280 or more-----------------

3

All

ages

18-74

years

7,302

1%!

427

581

687

1,100

735

712

629

540

425

308

216

244

%

66

::

47

82

Age of black women

~

Estimated number in thousands

1,578

27

1;;

305

265

226

162

88

;;

43

54

21

11

3;

3

i

:

1,646

2

109

1::

356

154

160

110

132

118

24

30

:2

5

9

2;

:

1,318 1>237 871 652

21
Table 9. Percent distribution of white adults aged 18-74 years by sex and weight, according to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and weight in pounds

Men

All weights -----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more -----------------

Women

All weights -----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250-259--------------A------

260-269---------------------

270-279---------------------

280 or more -----------------

Percent distribution

100.00

0.15

0.68

1.06

3.61

5.64

9.61

13.81

14.59

14.15

12.12

8.63

5.68

3.87

2.86

1.30

0.73

1.51

100.00

0.81

2.22

6.56

13.34

16.52

16.84

12.27

8.85

7.24

:.:;

2:57

1.36

1.16

0.73

0.54

0.30

0.16

0.11

0.13

0.37

10CI.OO

——

0.59

1.62

4.76

9.17

15.04

16.71

15.80

10.09

7.98

6.62

3,18

2,,92

2.56

1.66

0,74

0.56

100.00

——

0.89

4.18

10.06

20.01

18.52

19.,61

10.04

5.26

4.!51

2.60

1.1.8

1.1.2

0.2!4

0.55

0.20

0.35

0.10

0.12

0.09

0.07

0.30

100.00

0.21

0.24

2.58

5.20

9.99

15.85

11.70

13.47

12.07

9.41

6.14

4.13

3.73

1.41

0.85

3.02

100.00

0.38

;.:;

16:60

20.47

15.65

10.60

6.66

4.30

4.32

2.65

1.67

1.59

0.88

0.97

0.55

0.33

0.41

0.18

0.38

100.00

0.2:

0.42

3.40

3.50

5.98

10.84

16.13

14.11

15.26

10.86

9.27

2.67

3.73

0.70

0.84

2.08

100.00

0.22

1.39

4.53

11.90

18.87

17.40

12.32

9.19

6.25

4.35

3.39

3.04

1.59

1.92

0.80

0.84

0.59

0.08

0:3:

1.01

100.00

0.09

0.81

0.93

3.49

3.84

7.41

11.64

14.40

14.63

14.23

10.82

5.13

5.90

3.10

1.75

0.68

1.15

100.00

0.65

0.89

4.63

10.98

14.33

15.41

13.86

11.32

10.03

4.65

4.02

3.75

1.10

2.09

0.70

0.69

0.45

0.21

0.07

0.07

0.10

100.00

0.65

1.39

1.63

2.97

5.97

8.81

11.67

14.96

19.17

12.07

6.06

5.66

3.93

2.03

1.36

0.72

0.95

100.00

1.97

2.04

5.60

8.21

11.23

17.46

12.35

11.20

10.52

6.74

4.11

3.28

2.34

0.75

1.21

0.20

0.08

0.4;

o~ifl

100.00

0.37

1.39

2.49

5.31

7.03

11.02

17.26

15.35

14.71

10.01

6.15

3.64

3.27

0.66

0.47

0.32

0.55

100.00

1.15

2.18

4.55

9.95

1!3.21

15.48

15.96

10.77

9.34

7.26

4.02

2.83

1.41

0.44

10.45

0.49

0.19

0.07

0.0

O’M

NOTE: Percents may not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

22
,ble 10. Percent distribution of black adults aged 18-74 years by sex and weight, according to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and weight in pounds

Men

All weights -----------

Less than 100---------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

150-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-22!3---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250 or more -----------------

Women

All weights -----------

Less than 90----------------

90-99-----------------------

100-109---------------------

110-119---------------------

120-129---------------------

130-139---------------------

140-149---------------------

250-159---------------------

160-169---------------------

170-179---------------------

180-189---------------------

190-199---------------------

200-209---------------------

210-219---------------------

220-229---------------------

230-239---------------------

240-249---------------------

250-259:--------------------

260-269---------------------

270-279---------------------

280 or more -----------------

Age of black adults

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

Percent distribution

100.00

OM

2.91

3.60

11.21

14.86

13.19

13.96

10.113

5.60

7.49

4.32

3.52

1.37

2.79

0.71

4.14

100.00

0.74

2.58

5.83

8.00

9.31

15.02

10.16

9.83

8.51

7.28

5.91

4.27

3.04

3.37

1.34

1.12

0.86

0.17

0.87

0.62

1.17

100.00

0.21

2.55

5.67

9.80

18.97

14.59

15.30

12.s2

6.57

2.27

3.12

2.83

0.57

4.9;

100.00

1.75

3.46

9.23

19.04

16.74

14.41

10.40

5.67

4.94

3.06

2.82

3.44

1.35

0.73

0.0

1.92

0.17

0.50

0.09

0.28

100.00

3.8i

2.77

9.35

13.75

17.15

12.59

9.23

3.88

10.33

2.30

5.22

0.85

4.36

4.3;

100.00

1.38

3.93

6.60

5.88

9.80

21.63

9.31

9.71

6.70

8.00

7.13

1.43

1.79

0.89

2.88

0.29

0.57

1.66

0.07

0.35

100.00

1.76

3.16

9.74

9.76

5.30

10.53

9.62

5.20

18.74

7.85

6.36

5:$;

6.4;

100.00

0.76

2.83

6.17

3.74

15.72

10.96

12.30

8.63

10.39

6.54

3.10

6.62

4.21

1.73

1.97

0.94

0.42

1.72

0.73

0.52

100.00

o.3ii

1.37

1.41

17.95

12.48

11.06

20.29

7.56

5.96

5.02

4.70

1.66

5.00

1.95

0.70

2.59

100.00

2.6;

3.67

10.31

11.10

7.51

9.19

15.72

11.91

4.07

6.75

1.95

5.72

0.30

1.42

3.40

0.37

2.85

1.19

100.00

0.6;

4.87

1.49

6.19

21.18

13.78

9.96

12.77

7.03

2.29

6.73

3.96

4.90

4.20

100.00

2.2;

6.98

2.52

4.80

12.04

11.03

13.34

7.06

3.33

10,08

8.32

4.62

5.83

2.32

5.49

100.00

0.19

0.49

3.90

9.05

14.50

12.31

15.51

11.52

8.73

5.87

6.93

3.12

4.78

1.02

1.23

0.8;

100.00

0.63

5.96

5.56

5.11

6.11

10.67

13.23

11.20

11.07

7.37

6.34

5.37

2.28

6.22

0.61

0.44

1.0;

0.30

0.2;

NOTE: Percents may not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

23
Table 11. Weight in pounds of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex, race, and agei sample

size, estimated population in thousands, mean, standard deviatio~, standard error of

the mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74

Sex, race, and age

ydJI

White

18-74 years-----------

L8-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

.45-54years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

Black

18-74 years----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

-

White

18-74 years-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

Black

18-74 years-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

I

Sage

Estimated

population

in

thousands

I

I

A625 10,271

672 l;,;;!

:;:

10:039

504 S,200

1,344 4,970

I

==4===

;?; 1,270

1,232

1,005

1% 1,;:;

2% 486

I

1,165 11,161

1,539 12,161

1,301 10,095

705 10,879

552 9,112

1,496 6,603

&329 1,578

335 -1,646

;;: 1,318

1,237

115 871

318 652

I

173

~

165

177

178

176

171

164

171

~

166

175

182

168

172

161

142

~

132

138

146

147

~:g

156

138

149

165

169

168

155

30

——

:;

29

29

%

40

——

37

51

37

;:

31

——

26

31

34

}

41

Weight in pounds

T

0.75 129 138

1.s9 125 133

1.40 134 142

1.66 133 145

1.23 129 141

1.49 125 136

0.99 123 131

4.04 123 131

8.17 124 134

&.59 130 137

3.75 135 136

6.34 119 138

2.31 121 127

*

0.82 100 106

1.02 104 109

1.29 109 114

1.32 109 113

1.35 103 111

1.08 105 113

1.531 104 I 111 , ,

2.47 100 107

3.20 100 108

2.68 112 121

4,53 115 128

6.37 104 118

3.28 94 109

IT

153 171 190

146 162 182

155 173 194

160 177 195

158 176 193

153 171 187

148 164 180

I I

==!=4= 142 159 176

148 162 193

151 180 201

145 162 185

145 163 186

137 156 179

tt

121 136 157

115 128 142

118 131 150

124 137 159

126 143 162

127 143 164

126 142 162

129( 1481 176

114 130 150

127 141 170

136 158 185

139 162 186

139 156 191

133 153 177

211

205

217

211

214

208

198

217

202

219

236

220

237

205

182

~

162

179

191

188

187

180

207

1s4

190

216

215

215

202

224

222

232

224

225

220

210

239

227

235

255

230

249

218

~ 199

177

201

213

204

201

192

228

5

226

238

244

297

219

—

NOTE: Total weights of all clothing ranged from 0,20 to 0.62 lb., which is not deducted from weights shown in tables.

24
Table 12. Estimated number of men aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United States,

1971-74

Height in inches

All heights-----------

Less than 60----------------

60---------------------------

--------------------------

%--------------------------

63--------------------------

64--------------------------

65--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70-------------------------..-

71---------------------------

72--------------------------

73--------------------------

--------------------------

;;---------------------------

76 or more------------------

Age of men

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

Estimated number in thousands

%lR

152

646 I 14;

1,218 120

2,167

3,867

6,004

7,558

8,352

8,642

7.555

5

1

1

,——— :

,494 1;342

;,;;: 871

, 764

1;154 329

417 112

552 260

It

13,002

1;

::

273

383

546

1,217

1,305

1,404

2,045

1,763

1,192

1,142

931

366

177

216

10,692

4;

47

2::

299

525

986

1,241

1,603

1,537

1,343

1,127

883

465

1:;

30

11,150

18

3

1::

211

290

764

1,076

1,605

1,719

1,595

1,34s

817

870

425

173

%

8,998

20

23

1;:

192

485

757

1,090

1,439

1,313

1,241

841

834

325

195

70

2:

5,496

%

lx

222

498

726

746

828

812

558

459

182

179

26

18

1

25
Table 13. Estimated number ofwomen age<~l~~i7$4years, by age and height: United Stat-,

Height in inches

All heights -----------

Less than 55----------------

55---------------------------

----”-”-------------------

%’------------------------

58------------------.-------

59----------------------------

--------------------------

w-------------------------

62----------------------------

63--------------------------

--------------------------

:2--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

71 or more ------------------

Age of women

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45+4 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years

years

years

Estimated number in thousands

67,925

33

155

216

536

1,105

2,503

4,583

7,494

10,165

10,315

10,150

9,078

5,325

3,134

1,819

744

347

225

:12,924 —

10

1;

1;:

248

561

1,039

1,689

1,963

1,982

2,151

1,257

887

431

244

113

95

13,933[ 11,576,

4

1;

2;

8;

159 1::

295 427

528 689

1,444 966

2,082 1,555

2,256 1,654

1>943 1,891

2,046 1,829

1,381 977

842 637

539 458

161 197

113 73

40] 49

12,163

4;

27

4%

1,003

1,258

1,969

1,841

2,118

1,450

1,031

488

228

90

31

34

10,052

106

lx

323

M;

1,613

1,565

1,570

1,438

1,032

428

189

85

u

4

7,277

13

27

2?):

297

482

907

1,174

1,305

1,031

778

570

2;;

E!

;

26
Table 14. Percent distribution of adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according

to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and height in inches

Men

All heights-----------

Less than 60----------------

60------.--------------------

62--------------------------

63--------------------------

64--------------------------

65--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

69--------------------------

-----------------.--------

;$!------.-------------------

72-----------------.--------

--------------------------

;:-------------.-------------

75------------------..-------

76 or more------------------

Women

All heights-----------

Less than 55----------------

55--------------------------

--------------------------

R-------------------------

58--------------------------

59----.---------------------

60----------.----------.----

-------------..------------

:;--------------------------

63-------------------.------

------------.-----,.-------

2;----------.----------.----

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

71 or more------------------

Age of adults

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

Percent distribution

100.00

0.13

0.27

0.25

1.05

1.99

3.59

6.35

9.87

12.35

13.69

14.14

12.34

9.01

6.97

4.55

1.87

0.68

0.90

100.00

0.05

0.23

0.32

0.79

1.63

3.73

6.79

11.06

14.99

15.17

14.94

13.30

7.83

4.58

2.68

1.08

0.51

0.32

100.OC

0.3;

0.05

1.28

0.98

1.81

4.68

7.72

9.51

12.62

14.2C

15.31

11.59

7.41

6.38

2.86

0.95

2.30

100.00

0.08

o!i~

0.55

1.28

1.96

4.48

8.10

13.14

15.17

15.37

16.42

9.72

6.83

3.30

i.84

0.86

0.71

100.00

0.1;

0.08

0.10

2.11

3.11

4.27

9.34

10.07

10.82

15.68

13.49

9.11

8.76

7.08

2.81

1.36

1.64

100.00

0.0

0.13

0%!

1.13

2.13

3.80

10.36

14.92

16.16

13.93

14.68

9.93

6.05

3.88

1.17

0.81

0.29

100.00

0.07

0.36

0.42

0.73

1.85

2.80

4.86

9.27

11.48

15.13

14.42

12.66

10.66

8.15

4.43

1.74

0.68

0.29

100.00

0:6:

0.23

0.27

0.92

3.70

5.95

8.34

13.42

14;29

16.34

15.80

8.43

5.51

3.95

1,70

0.63

0.42

100.OC

0.16

0.0:

0.27

1.27

1.8S

2.61

6.85

9.64

14.41

15.44

14.3C

12.02

7.33

7.79

3.80

1.55

0.45

0.19

100.00

0.3;

0.22

0.47

4.07

8.24

10.39

16.13

15.15

17.42

11.93

8.48

3.98

1.88

0.74

0.27

0.28

100.00

0.22

0.26

0.13

1.47

2.13

5.39

8.41

12.13

15.98

14.59

13.80

9.32

9.28

3.62

2.17

0.77

0.06

0.27

100.00

1.0;

0.75

1.22

3.23

5.60

8.86

16.04

15.57

15.56

14.24

10.30

4.29

1.89

0.85

0.37

0.16

0.0

100.00

0.58

0.73

0.83

2.25

4.05

9.05

13.20

13.57

15.07

14.77

10.15

8.36

3.30

3.27

0.48

0.33

0.0

100.00

0.18

0.37

0.69

2.80

4.09

6.62

12.46

16.12

17.96

14.17

10.69

7.84

3.43

1.25

1.08

0.21

0.;

NOTE: Percents may not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

27
Table 15. Height in inches of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex and age: sample size,

estimated population in thousands, mean, standard deviation, standard error of the

mean, and selected percentiles: United States, 1971-74

Sex and age

Men —

18-74 years---

18-24 years---------

25-34 years---------

35-44 years---------

45-54 yeara---------

55-66 years---------

65-74 years---------

18-24 years---------

25-34 years---------

35-44 years---------

45-54 years---------

55-64 years---------

65-74 years---------

I I I I

Estimated

Semple population

size in

thousands

,

i

772 11,753

804 13,002

665 10,692

765 11,150

597 8,998

1,657 , 5,496

+

1,524 12,924

1,896 ~JW:

1,:::

12:163

670 10,052

1,822 7,277

J-Standmrd Standard Percentile

Wean deviation &J;e:: ~th

10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th

Height in inches

69.0

7

2.8 0.07

69.7

T

2.8 0.18

69.6 2.9 0.12

69.1 2.7 0.13

68.9, 2.6 0.13

68.3 2.6 0.16

67.3 2.6 0.08

=4==4== 64.3

64.1

64.1

63.6

62.8

62.3

;2.5

2.4

:?.5

:~.3

2.4

2.4

64.4 [ 65.5 I 67.1/ 69.0[ 70.8 [ 72.6 [ 73.6

, ( 1 I t I

65.1 66.1 67.8 69.7 71.5

64.8

73.4

66.0

74.4

67.6 69..5 71.5

64.7

73.4

:3.:

74.3

67.3 69.2 ;;.;

64.7

72.6 73.4

67.1 68.8

64.1 65:1

72.4 73.2

66.7 68.2 70:1 ;;.:

63.2 64.2

72.5

65.6 67.3 69.1 . 71.6

59.5 60.5 62.0 63.7 65.3 66.8 67.8

60.2 61.2 62.6 64.3 65.8 67,4 68.4

60.2 61.2 62.4 64.0 65.7 67,3 68.2

59.9 60.8 62.3 64.1 65.7 67.3 68.4

59.9 60.6 62.1 63.7 65.2 :;.; 67.3

58.6 59.6 61,2 62.8 64,5 66.6

58.2 59.3 60.8 62.3 63.9 65:3 66.2

I I I I I 1

NOTE: Height was meaaured without shoes.

Table 16. Estimated number of white men aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United

States, 1971-74

Height in inches

All heights-----------

Less than 60----------------

60--------------------------

61--------------------------

62--------------------------

63--------------------------

64--------------------------

65--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

--------------------------

R----------------:--------

72--------------------------

73------------------___-----

74--------------------------

75--------------------------

76 or more------------------

——

Age of white men

—

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54

18-74

55-64 65-74

years years years years years years

years

—

Estimated number in thousands

54,606

1;;

119

534

1,003

1,737

3,392

5,399

6,524

7,537

7,858

6,855

5,002

3,850

2,652

1,005

385

548

10,271

3;

122

l:i

469

765

976

1,340

1,,520

1,,592

1,:1.33

’757

681

“292

112

;!60

11,594

1;

2;:

205

432

1,107

1,123

1,232

1,860

1,632

1,112

1,039

890

336

155

216

9,532

2:

35

1:!

269

;MJ

1,044

1,508

1,390

1,247

1,062

735

465

120

;;

10,039

18

3

1;;

170

241

698

930

1,354

1,537

1,461

1,251

737

829

413

170

41

18

8,200

;:

18

172

425

694

1,028

1,299

1,172

1,138

714

792

314

180

70

2:

4,970

%

1%

199

456

653

688

728

748

489

419

166

176

23

17

28
Table 17. Estimated number of black men aged 18-74 years, by age ana height: United

States, 1971-74

Height in inches

All heights-----------

Less than 60----------------

60--------------------------

---------.-------..-------

::--------------------------

- ---- - --- -- -- - - -- - - - - --- - -

2-------------------------

65--------------------------

--------------------------

%--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

--------------------------

;:----------------------..---

72--------------------------

73--------------------------

74--------------------------

75--------------------------

76 or more------------------

All

ages

18-74

years

5,753

2

;;

1;:

366

393

504

953

662

747

643

493

416

155

149

32

3

Age of black

18-24 25-34 35-44

years years years

men

45-54

years

55-64

years

Estimated number in thousands

1,270

2;

25

::

1%

145

132

174

210

114

83

37

1,232

1:;

1::

178

119

186

116

80

102

41

29

22

1,005 1,057 703

1;

5:

63

1%

72

1;;

42

10

15

65-74

years

486

29
Table 18. Estimated number of white women aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United

States, 1971-74

Heighr in inches

All heights-----------

Less than 55----------------

55--------------------------

--------------------------

%-------------------------

58--------------------------

59--------------------------

60--------------------------

61--------------------------

------------.-------------

2:--------------------------

64--------------------------

65--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70---------------------------

71 or more------------------

Age of white women

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

Estimated number in thousands

60,011 11,161

10

1;: 4

210 16

484

913 1;;

2,144 208

4,036 420

6,745 901

8,881 1,,418

9,139 1:,712

8,924 1,,713

8,026 1,870

4,796 1,112

2,761 797

1,633 395

654 226

303

211 :2

12,161

1!

1;:

260

464

1,249

1,793

1,916

1,694

1,788

1,258

739

489

152

x’

10,095

4

2;

::

306

581

889

1,409

1,448

1,567

1,641

901

580

393

146

x

10,879

4;

23

4;;

886

1,186

1,693

1,657

1,902

1,302

925

405

207

::

34

9,112

6i

1;:

278

479

847

1,471

1,394

1,463

1,339

914

369

164

;:

17

4

6,603

9

:;

184

275

437

838

1,049

,1,174

943

709

511

231

76

76

15

30
Table 19. Estimated number of black women aged 18-74 years, by age and height: United

States, 1971-74

Height in inches

All heights -----------

Less than 55----------------

55--------------------------

56--------------------------

57--------------------------

58--------------------------

----------------.---------

%---------------------------

61--------------------------

-------- -------- --------- -

x--------------------------

-------- -------- -------- -.

%--------------------------

66--------------------------

-------- -------- -------- --

2;--------------------------

69-------- -------- -------- -.

70--------------------------

71 or more ------------------

Age of black women

All

ages 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74

18-74 years years years years years years

years

Estimated number in thousands

7,302

3;

3

1::

236

470

717

1,197

1>116

1,176

1,010

509

353

187

R

14

1,578 1,6461 1,318

1

2

3:

33

1%

267

293

223

i

13

55

86

lx

206

323

250 189

123 76

102

50 2;

10 50

15 11

-1 -

871 652

32

1

2; ;;

41

::

142 1%

171 131

107 88

69

R 59

59 19
Table 20. Percent distribution of white adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and heigh~ in inches

Men

All heights -----------

Less than 60----------------

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - -- -

El-------------------------

62--------------------------

- -- - - - - - -- ---- - - - - ---- - - - -

2:--------------------------

65--------------------------

66--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

------ ------ ------ ------ --

;; - -- - - -- - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - -

73 - - -- -- - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - - - - --

- - --- ---- - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - -

;;--------------------------

76 or more ------------------

Women

All heights -----------

;;ss than 55 - - -- - - - - - - - - - - --

------ ------ ------ ------ --

56--------------------------

-- - - - -- - - -- - - -- -- - -- -- --- -

U--------------------------

59--------------------------

60 - - - - - - -- - . - - -- - - - - - -- -- -- -

61--------------------------

62--------------------------

- - - - - - -- - - -- - -- - - - - - -- - - - -

::--------------------------

65--------------------------

- - - - -- - - - -- ---- - - -- - - - -- - -

%--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

71 or more ------------------

Age of white adults

!!zlEE$z@EEz

Percent distribu~ion

100.00

0.14

0.24

0.22

0.99

1.84

3.19

6.24

9.93

11.94

13.82

14.38

12.51

9.18

7.05

4.79

1.84

0.70

1.00

100.00

0.05

0.20

0.35

0.81

1.52

3.59

6.77

11.27

14.83

15.22

14..88

13.32

7.98

4.58

2.72

1.07

0.50

0.34

100.00

0.4;

0.06

1.21

0.63

1.35

4.58

7.61

9.32

12.91

14.84

15.42

11.18

7.35

6.49

2.90

1.10

2.65

100.00

().09

o!i!

CI.48

1.14

1.90

3.84

8.14

12.75

15.33

15.40

16.57

9.97

7.13

3.53

1.99

0.83

0,72

100.00

0.0;

0.12

1.98

1.77

3.72

9.56

9.68

10.63

16.03

14.07

9.59

8.97

7.68

2.91

1.33

1.87

100.00

0.05

0.14

0.6;

0.98

2.14

3.81

10.28

14.74

15.76

13.93

14.70

10.33

6.08

4.03

1.24

0.81

0.33

100.00

0.07

0.28

0.37

0.31

1.73

2.83

4.68

9.25

10.96

15.80

14.59

13.09

11.15

7.72

4.85

1.25

0.76

0.31

100.00

0%;

0.27

0.22

0.63

3.03

5.75

8.81

13.95

14.35

15.52

16.25

8.93

5.74

3.90

1.45

0.61

0.48

NOTE: Percents may not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

——.— 100.00

0.18

OW

1.41

1.69

2.40

6.96

9.27

13.48

15.32

14.55

12.46

7.34

8.26

4.11

1.70

0.41

0.18

100.00

0.3;

0.22

0.45

4.18

8.15

10.90

15.56

15.23

17.48

11.96

8.51

3.72

1.90

0.76

0.29

0.31

100.00

0.24

0.28

0.12

1,47

2.09

5.18

8.47

12.53

15.85

14.29

13.88

8.70

9.66

3.84

2.19

0.85

0.06

0.30

100.00

0.75

0.83

1.36

3.06

5.27

9.29

16.14

15.29

16.05

14.69

10.03

4.05

1.80

0.80

0.36

0.19

0.0

100.00

0.61

0.76

0.65

2.18

4.00

9.18

13.14

13.83

14.66

15.04

9.84

8.42

3.34

3.55

~ W

100.00

0.13

0.41

0.75

2.78

4.16

6.62

‘12.69

15.88

17.79

14.29

10.73

7.75

3.48

1.15

1.16

0.23

32
Table 21. Percent distribution of black adults aged 18-74 years by sex and height, according to age: United States, 1971-74

Sex and height in inches

Men

All heights -----------

Less than 60----------------

60--------------------------

61--------------------------

62--------------------------

63--------------------------

--------------------------

i%-------------------------

66--------------------------

---------------------- ----

2;--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

71--------------------------

72--------------------------

73--------------------------

74--------------------------

75--------------------------

76 or more ------------------

Women

All heights -----------

Less than 55----------------

55--------------------------

56--------------------------

57--------------------------

---------- ----- -----------

x--------------------------

60--------------------------

------ ------ ------ ------ --

%--------------------------

63--------------------------

64--------------------------

--------------------------

;2--------------------------

67--------------------------

68--------------------------

69--------------------------

70--------------------------

71 or more ------------------

A

All

ages

18-74

years

100.00

0!5:

0.38

1.20

2.18

6.60

;.;;

16:43

11.54

12.97

11.15

8.62

7.09

2.82

2.43

0.59

0.05

100.00

0.4;

0.04

0.57

1.53

3.33

6.48

9.92

16.30

15.22

16.07

13.73

6.94

4.78

2.56

1.24

0.60

0.20

Age of black adults

~

Percent distribution

100.00

2.00

1.83

4.80

3.11

6.!25

10.48

11.28

10.55

13.66

16.60

9.13

6.61

3.00

100.00

1.1;

0.96

1.63

6.64

8.40

15.53

15.27

15.57

17.00

8.00

4.61

2.30

1.14

1.11

0.73

100.00

2.86

11.46

6.48

8.33

14.43

9.67

15.05

9.43

6.48

8.33

3.33

2.39

1.76

100.00

0.10

0.12

2.02

2.11

3.40

11.41

16.23

17.77

13.53

15.16

7.46

6.16

3.02

0.60

0.91

100.00

1.4;

1.21

2.65

0.85

2.16

7.44

5.25

16.72

9.41

14.54

9.48

6.46

14.59

7.82

100.00

0.2;

0.97

4.14

6.54

4.45

9.47

15.63

24.50

14.34

5.76

4.36

4.90

3.82

0.85

100.00

o.3i

2.91

4.70

6.18

13.55

22.43

16.15

11.29

8.57

7.56

3.81

1.13

0.26

0.85

0.31

100.00

0.27

2.30

9.44

5.81

20.67

14.70

17.40

11.74

8.56

6.73

1.76

0.62

100.00

1.73

0.56

8.26

8.95

8.80

19.84

10.31

13.92

18.10

5.96

1.49

2.08

100.00

3.69

3.oi

6.22

5.50

16.40

19.39

12.33

11.27

10.71

6.79

2.88

1.39

0.41

100.00

0.38

0.42

1.72

2.00

4.10

6.98

14.13

11.92

19.16

12.57

13.32

8.31

3.23

0.67

0.81

0.16

0.12

100.00

0.1;

2.26

3.40

6.26

9.50

19.03

20.31

13.50

10.62

8.97

2.95

2.29

0.32

0.4:

NOTE: Percents may,not add to 100.00 due to rounding.

33
Table 22. Height in inches of adults aged 18-74 years, by sex, race, and age:

size,

sample

estimated population in thousands, mean, standard deviation, standard error of

the mean, and selected percentiles: United StatesS 1971-74

I I I

;stimated

>opulation

in

;hou,aands

54,606

10,271

11,594

9,532

10,039

8,200

4,970

5,753

Standard Standard

Mesn deviatiOn error of

the mesn

Percentile

Sample

size

4,343

Sex, race, -andage

MEN

White

18-74 years-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

B18-74 years-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

Wol.llm

m~

18-74 yeara-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

BIack

18-74 years-----------

18-24 years-----------------

25-34 years-----------------

35-44 years-----------------

45-54 years-----------------

55-64 years-----------------

65-74 years-----------------

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th

1 I

Height in inches

73.6

~

74.5

74,3

73.4

73.3

72.5

71.7

73.3

=4==== 0.08

0.20

0.13

0.13

0.14

0.17

0.09

0.16

64.6

65.3

65.3

64.8

64.7

64.2

63.2

64.1 IT

65.6 67.2 69.1

66.3 67.9 69.8

66.3 67.7 69.7

65.9 67.5 69.3

65.6 67.2 68.9

65.L 66.7 68.2

64.2 65.6 67.3

70.9

71.4

71.7

71.1

70.7

70.1

69.1

70.6

72.7

73.4

73.4

72.6

72.5

71..7

70.6

72.4

.—

625

672

570

628

504

1,344

847

132

119

1%

2::

6,758

1,165

1,539

1,301

705

552

1,496

1,557

69.8

69.7

69.2

168.9

68.3

67.3

68.6

69.5

68.6

69.1

68.2

68.2

67.3

63.7

64.3

64.1

64.1

63.6

62.8

62.3

63.7

64.0

63.9

64.2

63.8

62.8

62.6

2.8

2.8

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.6

2.8 64.81 66.8/ 68.6

65.3 67.4 69.8

64.4 66.6 68.6

65.6 67.2 69.2

65.4 66.6 67.9

64.4 66.6 68.1

64.2 65.6 67.5

1,270

1,232

1,005

1,057

703

486

60,011

11,161

12,161

10,095

10,879

9,112

6,603

7,302

n3.1

2.4

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.5

2.5

;:i

2.4

2.4

2.5

0.45

0.38

0.44

0.26

0.32

0.18

0.05

0.09

0.08

0.09

0.11

0.11

0.09

0.09

64.6

64.1

62.4

64.5

64.1

63.1

59.5

60.3

60.2

60.1

59.9

58.6

58.2

59.6

71.7

70.6

71.3

69.5

70.1

69.1

65.3

72.9

72.6

72.8

71.3

70.9

70.2

66.8

73.6

73.7

74.3

72.3

71.8

70.9

60.6 62.0 63.7 67.8

1 1

61.3 62.7 64.3

61.2 62.4 64.1

60.9 62.4 64.1

60.6 62.0 63.7

59.7 61.2 62.8

59.2 60.7 62.3

65.9

65.8

65.7

65.2

64.5

63.9

65.3

67:4

67.3

67,3

66.7

65.6

65.3

66.’8

66,9

67.1

67.7

66.!3

66.2

65,,5

68.4

68.3

68.4

:;.;

66:2

67.8

68.1

67.8

68.8

67.6

66.9

66.2

60.6] 62;11 63.7

I 1

329

335

334

126

115

318

1,578

X,646

1,318

1,237

871

652

2.4

$:;

2.2

2.6

2.4

0.20

0.20

0.19

0.30

0.24

0.18

60.2

60.2

59.8

60.2

58.4

58.7

NOTE: Height was measured without shoes.

34
Table 23. Comparison of mean heights and weights in HES (1960-62) and HANES (1971-74),

by sex and age: United States

Age

18-74 years------------

18-24 years------------------

25-34 years------------------

35-44 yeara------------------

45-54 yeara------------------

55-64 years------------------

65-74 yeara------------------

Age

18-74 years------------

18-24 yeara------------------

25-34 yeara------------------

35-44 years------------------

45-54 years------------------

55-64 years------------------

65-74 yeara------------------

Sax and height

Men Women

1960-62 1971-74 1960-62 1971-74

Exceaa Excess

Number

of

Mean Number Mean H& Ntm$er Mean Number Mean

of height

HANES

of height over height of height over

examined . examined in HES examined in examined in HES

persons inXea persona inches persona inches persona inches

3,019 68.3 5,260 69.0 +0.7 3,511 63.1 8,411 63.6 +0.5

411 68.7 772 ;9.7 +1.0

675

534 63.8

69.1

1,524 64.3 +0.5

804 69.6 +0.5 746 63.7

703 68.5

1,896 64.1 +0.4

665 69.1 +0.6 784

547

63.5

68.2

1,663 64.1 +0.6

765 68.9 +0.7

418

705 62.9

67.4 597

836

68.3 +0.9

63.6 +0.7

265

443 62.4

66.9

670

1,657 67.3 +0.4 “299

62.8 +0.4

61.5 1,822 62.3 +0.8

Sex and weight

Men

1960-62 1971-74

Excess

I I of

3>019 166 5,260 172 %

I 1 ! 1

411 158 I 772 165 -

675 169 804 176 :;

703 170 665 178 +E

547 170 765 175 +5-

418 164 597 171

265 158 1,657 164 :;

Women

1960-62 1971-74

Excess

I I of

Nu$yr Mean Number Mean HANES

weight of weight over

?xamined - examined - HES

)eraons po::ds persons po::ds

3>511 140 8,411 143 +3

1 1 I I

534 127 1,524 132 +5

746 pj 1,896 140 +6

;:; 1,663 148 +6

145 836 149 +4

443 150 670 149 -1

299 144 1,822 146 +2

NOTE : Height waa meaaured without ahoea. 2 lbs. are deducted from HES data to allow for weight of clothing;

weights of all clothing for HANES ranged from 0.20 to 0.62 lb.,

total

which is not deducted frcm weights shown.

35
Table 24. Cumulative percent distribute.on of weight in pounds of men in HES (1960-62)

and HANES (1971-74), by age: United States

Age of men

Weight in All ages 18-24 years 25-34 yeare 35-44 years 18-74 years

45-54 years 55-64 years

pounds

65-74 years

1960- 1;:1- M;o- 1971- 1.960- l:;91-

62

1960- 1971.- 1::o- 1971- 1960-

74 62

1971-

62

1960- 1971-

74 74 62 74 62 74

-1Under 100-------

Under 110-------

Under 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

Under L90-------

Under 200-------

Under 210-------

Under 220-------

Under 230-------

Under 240-------

Under 250-------

0.21 0.14

0.58 0.80

2.13 2.15

6.39 5.99

14.06 12.29

26.14 22.42

40,64 36.27

55.34 50.64

68.54 (ii.::

79.75

87.18 84:11

92.60 S9.61

95.88 93.42

98.02 96.11

98.90 97.54

99.51 98.26

2.03

9.37

20.55

38.83

54.55

69.29

80.02

89.21

92.12

94.28

96.20

98.97

99.26

99.79

0.54

2.30

8.05

17.41

32.86

49;27

64.73

74.94

82.61

88.61

91.73

94.58

96.87

98.31

98.95

Cumulative

0.08

0.21

2.05

5.33

12.75

24.11

37.76

51.03

64.57

75.88

84.45

91.22

94.36

96.67

98.46

99.21

0.31

1.22

&.14

9.90

20.14

36.35

;;.;;

71:83

81.19

86.82

91.04

94.42

9,6.13

915.88

percent distribution

0.40

0.77

2.62

9.10

18.04

34.04

48.74

64.56

77.38

85.86

91.94

95.48

97.54

98.67

99.39

0.0 0.21

0.23 0.52

0.98 1.35

4.32 4.33

8.71 10.62

15.11 20.97

25.40 35.60

40.94 49.12

54.76 63.35

69.08 76.63

80.42 85.23

89.47 90.60

92.39 95.33

95.79 97.75

96.85 98.85

97.62 99.77

0.08

0.84

1.80

5.10

10.28

18.31

29.90

44.79

58.81

72.17

82.38

87.44

93.01

96.27

98.04

98.72

0.29

0.54

2.85

4.92

16.93

29.18

43.14

57.77

70.04

80.27

88.07

94.12

97.38

98.90

99.02

.99.14

0.60

1.91

3.77

6.60

12.63

22.35

34.83

49.25

67.74

79.36

85.08

90.79

94.39

96,24

97.78

98.81

0.36

1.75

4.34

10.17

17.85

29.06

46.04

;;.;;

86:68

90.85

94.51

97.89

98.5?

99.14

99.42

Table 25. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of women in HES (1960-62)

and HANES (1971-74), by age: United States

Weight in

pounds

Under 90--------

Under 100-------

Under 110-------

Under 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

Under 190-------

Under 200-------

Under 210-------

Under 220-------

Under 230-------

Under 240-------

Under 250-------

Under 260-------

Under 270-------

Under 280-------

Age of woum

All ages

18-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 yearn

1960- 1;;1- l:;o- 1971- Ncl- 1971.- L::o- l;#- lg:o- l;#-

62

lg;o- l;#- 1:$o74 741971-

74

Cumulative percent distribution

0.40

2.41

9.05

22.05

38.Cd

54.82

68.72

77.32

83.88

89.43

92.60

95.13

96.93

98.04

98.69

99.20

99.45

99.63

99.77

99.84

0.80

3.12

9.72

22.49

38.24

54.92

66.87

75.80

83.17

88.18

91.60

94.36

95.88

97.27

98.06

98.65

99.01

99.18

99.37

99.54

0.47

5.39

18.15

35.87

58.99

74.53

86.10

91.94

94.96

97.32

97.70

98.14

98.71

99.05

’33.::

99:66

99.87

99,87

99.98

0.99

5.27

15,45

35.19

53.49

72.L9

82.L8

87.5L

92.09.

94.75

96.13

97.61

97.99

98.56

98.73

99.29

99.39

99.49

99.64

99.71

0.45

3.54

12.32

29.95

49.89

66.66

78.63

84.78

;3.;2

94:79

96.47

97.70

98.41

98.74

99.05

99.39

99.39

99.62

99.62

-1

0,84

5.65

2L.37

37.89

54.59

67.08

76.65

83.05

88.58

92.10

94.19

96.L6

97.36

98.67

99.07

99.3L

99.63

99,74

99.93

1

L.77

3.81

9.50

L7.09

27.8L

44.89

57.02

68.34

78.72

85.08

89.73

93.49

96.03

97.27

98.57

98.76

98.83

98.83

99.26

99.30

L.1O

3.67

8.49

18.00

30.54

45.55

6L.2L

72.00

81.49

88.74

92.95

96.00

97.49

98.45

98.9L

99.39

99.57

99.72

99.77

99.80
Table 26. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of white men in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age: United States

Weight in

pounds

I

Under 100-------

‘Under 110-------

‘7hder 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

;Under 190-------

!Under 200-------

Under 210-------

~Under 220-------

!Under 230-------

I~s ;::____

-------

1

Age of white men

All ages

1.8-74years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years ~

l;$O- l;#- 1:$o- ry- N:o- 1;;1- 1::o- M;l- lg;o- y- l:;CI- 1;;1. l:;o- 1973.- 1

74 \

Cumulative percent distribution

0.15

0.83

1.89 2.0;

5.50 8.51

11.14 18.63

20.75 37.18

34.56 52.66

49.15 67.75

63.30 79.37

75.42 88.21

84.05 91.23

89.73 93.47

93.60 95.66

96.46 98.83

97.76 99.16

98.49 99.76

0.25

o.2i 0.45

0.63 1.21

4.03 4.08

7.53 9.95

13.51 19.85

24.35 34.28

j:.;; 47.35

61.86

69:85 75.87

80.71 84.76

89.98 90.49

92.65 95.67

96.38 97.61

97.08 98.89

97.92 99.76

1.44 0.37

2.74 1.76

5.41 4.25

11.86 9.56

21.91 16.59

37.56 27.61

49.07 44.87

68.01 .55.;;

77.88

84.84 84:94

91.61 91.09

96.32 94.73

98.35 ;:.::

99.75”

99.76 99:13

100.00 99.41

Table 27. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of black men in HES

IJnder 100-------

~nder I1O-------

Under 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

Under 190-------

under 200-------

Under 210-------

Under 22fJ-------

Under 230-------

Under 240-------

Under 250-------

(1960-62) and HAhWS (1971-74), by age: United States

AKe c,fblack rren

All ages

L8-74 year% 18-24 years 25-34 yeaZ8 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years fi5-74years

1960- P3:l- 1960- l.;J- l;;o- l;~L- 1913cl62NjL621:30- 1371-

62

i960- 197L- L960- 1971-

74 62 74 ~~ 74

0.58

3.3s

7.57

M. 39

32.76

48.56

61.06

72.41

83.M

38.16

33.50

94.82

97.64

98.83

99.36

10.01

1

(3.23

3.14

6.74

17.15

32.81

$.;:

70:06

75.66

83.15

87.47

90.99

92.36

95.15

95.86

10”3;

26.50

44.15

64.68

79.12

84.27

98.07

98.07

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

100.00

-

0.21

2.76

8.43

18.23

37.20

51.79

67.09

79.67

.96.24

$38.51

!iL.63

94.46

95.03

95.03

95.03

Cmwlative percent dktributim

:1 :

1.26 3.s3

6.26 6.60

17.48 15.95

27.81 29.70

:;.;; &6.85

59.44

63:94 6S.67

69.51 72.55

77.77 8?.88

87.56 85.18

92.69 50.4!0

97.21 91.25

98.55 95.61

100,00 95.61

0.85

0.85

9.70

17.69

34.~~

39.69

;$.;:

86:24

Q3.M

93.14

94.3h

98.44

93.44

1.7;

L.92

14.56

?4.62

23.72

40.25

:;.8J

73:81

81.66

83.02

848.02

?3.59

93.59

l.li

2.55

5,z2

L3.99

27.45

45.14

63.63

72.37

81.53

37.38

90.64

92.46

98.79

98.79

100.00

-1-1 -!.

0.30

1.67

3.0)3

21.03

33.51

g.;;

72:42

78.38

83.&O

88.10

89.7t

94.76

96.71

97.41

-1

7.69

L3.A2

25.92

50.81

60.59

72.57

76.03

S6.19

90.36

95.92

95.92

9H.06

98.06

g8.06

0.62 9,67

5.49 16.91

6.9S ‘21.87

13.17 30.43

3k.35 50.2L

48.13 63.56

58.09 85.80

%1$( ~!:jj

80.18

S6.911 100:00

96.91’ 100.00

86.91 100.00

90.90 100.00

95.80 100.00

I I I

0.19

0.68

4.58

13.63

28,13

40.44

55.95

67.4?

76.20

82.07

89.00

92.12

96.90

97.92

99.15

99.15

37
Table 28. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of white women in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (1,971-74), by age: United States

Age of white women

Weight in

pounds

Under 90--------

Under 100-------

Under 110-------

Under 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

Under 190-------

Under 200-------

Under 210-------

Under 220-------

~n 230-------

240-----

Under 250-------

Under 260-------

Under 270-------

Under 280-------

All ages ———

18-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years

L960- L971- l;;o- 1971- l;;o- ly- l;;o- l;;l62 74 74

M;o - 1971- M;o- l;;l- 1960- MJ.

74 62,

umulative percent distribution

0.41

2.21

9.09

22.61

39.53

56.40

70.74

79.31

85.69

90.57

93.53

95.85

97.47

;2.$:

99:37

99.60

99.70

99.81

99,88

0.44

5.08

18.40

36.49

59.71

74.97

87.19

92.65

95.64

97.54

97.89

98.40

99.06

;;.:;

99:88

99.88

99.88

99.88

Loo.ou

0.89

5,07

15.13

35,14

53.66

73.27

83,31

88.57

93.08

95.68

96.86

97.98

98.22

98.77

98.97

99.32

99.42

99.54

99.63

99.70

I

0.38

2.97

11.79

28,39

48.86

64.51

75.11

81.77

86.07

90.39

93.04

94.71

96.30

97.18

98.15

98.70

99.03

99.44

99.44

99.62

0.8~

6.02

22.76

39.95

56.86

69.89

79.92

85.59

90.61

93.94

95.36

96.94

98.19

99.02

99.31

99.52

99.72

99.85

Loo,ou

0.22 0.81

1.61 1.68

6.14 7.45

18.04 18.00

36.91 30.85

54.31 46.46

66.63 6$::

75.82

82.07 81:97

86.42 87.99

89.81 91.11

92.85 94.69

94.44 96.67

96.36 97.93

97.16 98.59

98.00 99.12

98.59 99.42

98.67 99.42

98.69 99.61

98.99 99.61

0.65

1.54

6.17

17.15

31.48

46.89

60.75

72.07

82.10

86.75

90.77

94,52

95.62

97.71

98.41

99.10

99.55

99.76

99.83

99.90

0.95

0.95

3.85

10.42

22.97

43.06

59.04

68.60

77.07

85.25

89.55

93.73

95.67

97.59

98.22

99.13

99.55

99.89

99.89

100.00

1.97

4.01

9,61

;;.;:

;:::5

70:06

80.58

87.32

91.43

94.71

97.05

97.80

99.01

99.21

99.29

99.29

99.77

99.82

N

1;:!

31.0

46.5

62.4

73.2

82.5

89.8

93.8

96.7

98.1

98.5

99.0

99.4

99.6

99.7

99.7

99.8

Table 29. Cumulative percent distribution of weight in pounds of black women in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age: United States

Weight in

pounds

Under 90--------

Under 100-------

Under 110-------

Under 120-------

Under 130-------

Under 140-------

Under 150-------

Under 160-------

Under 170-------

Under 180-------

Under 190-------

Under 200-------

Under 210-------

tinder220-------

Under 230-------

Under 240-------

Under 250-------

Under 260-------

Under 270-------

,Under280-------

Age of black women

All ages

18-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years

1.960- 19# l:JO- 197L- l&- L9#- 1:;0. 1;:1-

62 74

1960- 1;;1- l;;o- 1;;1- l:;o- N;L62

(hmilative percent distribution

0.71

3.72

8.66

17.45

29.00

42.99

53.17

62,06

69.74

80.25

84.97

89.45

92.58

94.43

96.32

97.75

98.16

99.06

99.42

99.55

0.74

3.32

9.15

17.15

26.46

41.48

51.64

61.47

$5.;:

83:17

87.44

90.48

93.85

95.19

96.31

97.17

97.34

98.21

98.83

1.75

5.21

14.44

33.48

50.22

;;.;5

80:70

85.64

88.70

91.52

94.96

96.31

97.04

97.04

98.96

99.13

99.13

99.63

99.72

1.38

5.31

11.91

17.79

2’7.59

;;.;;

68:24

74.94

82.94

90,07

91..50

93.29

94.18

97.06

97.35

97.92

97.92

99.58

99.65

-1-

1.22 0.76

3.77 3.59

;g.:: 9.76

13.50

41:81 29.22

:;.:: 40.18

52.48

.5::;: 61.11

71.50

78:83 78.04

86.3h :3.;:

89.52

90.56 91:97

95.77 93.70

97.06 95.67

97.58 96.61

98.91 97.03

98.91 98.75

99.51 99.48

3.5i

6.38

9.98

20.55

29.68

44.23

53.77

59.64

74.86

83.13

88.95

93.06

95.52

96.21

98.12

98.12

98.12

Loo.00

100.00

2.6;

6.34

16.65

27.75

35.26

44.45

;5.;;

76:15

82.80

84.75

90.47

;9.;;

95:59

95.5!3

95.96

98.81

1.06

2.21

4.29

4.29

7.72

16.35

29.20

34.01

47.92

63.28

69.51

77.73

86.83

86.83

89.42

94.93

97.42

100.00

100.00

100.00

2.24

9.22

11.74

16.54

28.58

39.61

52.95

60.01

63.34

73.42

81.74

86.36

92.19

94.51

94.51

94.51

94.51

94.51

94.51

0.6 ‘

6.5i

12.15

17.26

23.57

34.24

47.47

58.67

69.74

77.11

83.45

88.82

91.10

97.32

97.93

98.37

98.37

99.43

99.73

99.73

38
Table 30. Percent of adults aged 18-74 years above selected weights in HES (1960-62)

and HANES (1971-74), by age, sex, and race: United States

Sex and race

Men —

Total l------

White-------------

Black-------------

Total l------

White-------------

Black-------------

Women

Tctall------

tJhite-------------

Black-------------

Total I------

WhLte-------------

Black-------------

Total 1------

White -------------

Black-------------

Age of adults

All agea

L8-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years

Ny- 1;:1- 1960- 1971- 1960- 1971- 1::o- 1971- 1960- 1971- 1960- 1971- 1960- 1971-

62 74 62 74 74 62 74 62 74 62 74

Percent 160 pounds or ucme

59.4

60.5

51.4

44.7

45.4

38.9

63.7

65.4

54.0

49.4

50.8

40.0

45.2 45.1

43.6 :;.;

57.0 .

31.3 33.1

29.3 31.4

46.8 48.4

16.l\ 16.8

14.3 15.3

30.3 30.0

45.4 50.7 62.2 63.6

47.3 52.1 63.8 65.9

35.3 48.2 57.7 53.1

30.7 35.3

32.2 36.3

20.9 32.9

25.51 27.8

25.0 26.7

29.2 35.4

13.9

12.8

21.2

5.0

4.4

8.3

17.8

16.7

25.0

7.9

1:::

Percent

49.0 52.0

49.9 54.2

48.8 40.6

66.01 74.6] 64.4

66.5 75.6 65.7

65.8 70.3 54.9

L70 pounds or more

51.3 59.1 50.9

50.5 59.5 52.6

60.3 59.7 36.4

Percent 140 pounds or mere

33.31 37.01 45.41 48.2] 55.4

30.9 35.5 43.1 45.7 53.5

50.6 50.8 58.2 70.8 70.3 i

70.1

71..8

55.4

55.2

57.4

35.1

54.7

53.1

72.2 I

56.9 65.2

59.6 66.9

39.4 51.9

42.2 51.0

44.6 51.9

27.4 41.9

51.9

50.9

36.4

31.8

32.0

14.2

59.5 55.1 57.0

56.9 53.5 55.9

83.6 71.4 55.1

Percent 150 pounda or more

21.4 26.6 32.9 36.2 38.3 41.5 43.7 43.0 41.5

18.6 24.9 30.1 33.4 35.9 39.2

40.0 41.5

$;.: 41.1

50.9 ~

40.3

59.8 55.8 64,7 . 60.4 47.9

Percent 170 pounds or more

1- 10.8 15.1

13.9

2;:? 25.1

16.9 20.1 20.8 19.9 25.6 21.3 18.9

14.4 17.9 18.0 17.9 22.9 19.4

35.0

18.0

38.9 40.4 39.8 52.1 40.0 26.5

54.0

55.1

44.0

39.1

39.8

32.5

54.4

53.5

65.8

38.8

37.5

52.3

18.5

17.4

30.3

lIncludes all races.

39
Table 31. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of men in HES (1960-62)

and HANES (1971,-74),by age: United ’States

. .-

..-—-. .—— ———

Age of men

Ez:- ‘g- : ‘~- ;: ‘~- :’ ‘~- ~; ‘g-

———

Height in

inches

Under 60--------

Under 61--------

L7nder62--------

Under 63--------

Under 64--------

Under 65--------

Under 66--------

Under 67--------

Under 68--------

D:rl ;:--------

1

------under 71--------

~der 72.-.-----

rider73--------

rider74--------

rider75--------

Under 76--------

Cumulative percent

0.0

0.; 0.2 );

0.2 0.3 0.5

0.4 1.9

::?

$: ::?

1;:: 14.8

22.1 1;:; 27.0

33.0 29.3 38.6

50.4 j:.; 57.8

62.4 69.6

76.6 ;;:: 84.0

84.4 92.9

92.4 87;1 97.3

95.7 94.2 98.9

98.8 97.0 99.8

99.0 98.4 2,00.0

distribution

0.1

%$

M

J::

20.4

31.8

47.0

;:.;

84:7

92.9

97.3

99.0

99.7

0.2

0.4

0.7

1.8

1;::

19.1

31.5

44.3

;:.;

86:4

91.5

96.7

:;.:

99:9

0.2

$;

i:i

1::!

22.7

37.1

52.6

66.9

78.9

86.2

94.0

97.8

99.4

99.8

0.;

2:

12.3

23.1

30.3

43.1

;;.;

81:3

89.8

94.3

98.4

99.6

99.8

99.8

0.11

0.3

1.0

2.6

5.6,

12.4

19.1,

32.1

44.0

62.1

72.5

84.5

90.8

96.2

98.4

99.5

99.7

0.1

J

0.4

0.7

::;

1;::

23.5

35.9

49.5

63.7

76.0

85.0

92.0

96.6

98.4

99.1

0.;

1.5

3.7

X+

28.6

41.3

56.1

68.7

81.0

86.2

94.7

97.8

99.2

99.8

,0.;

0.4

;:;

4.5

1::$

26.4

39.0

53.2

68.5

80.1

87.5

93.9

96.8

97.7

Table 32. Cumulative uercent distribution of height in inches ofwomen in HES 1(1960-62>

and HANES (1971-74), by ag~: United States

,....-,

,-..._t $

Age of women

All ages

18-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 ye,ars 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years

l!3;o- 1971- B;o- l;:l- EISlo- 1971- W;o74

W:l- 1960- 1;;1- B;o- 1;:1-

74

1960-

62

ql62

-— —

Height in

inches

Cumulative percent distribution

Under 55--------

Under 56--------

Under 57--------

Under 58--------

Under 59--------

Under 60--------

Under 61--------

Under 62--------

Under 63--------

Under 6h--------

Under 65--------

Under 66--------

Under 67--------

Under 68--------

Under 69--------

Under 70--------

Under 71--------

0.1

1

0.1

:::

:::

1::2

29.8

::.;

76:7

86.5

93.3

96.6

98.4

99,3

—.

0.;

:::

H12.2

22.4

42.0

53.5

71.7

83.1

93.9

97.2

99.0

99.3

99.6

::8

0.2

0.8

;::

18:2

33.1

49.3

;;.;

87;8

93.9

97.7

98.9

99.7

0.0 0.2

0.1 0.5

0.5

%:

1.5 M

lL.5I

1::; 20.8

19.5 34.0,

32.9 55.2

;;.: 68.1 I

82.5

79:4 89.41

87.8 94.4

93.3 97.2

97.3 99.8

;?.: 99.9

99.9

0.0

i::

2::

11.8

20.7

36.7

52.3

67.9

82.1

92.4

96.7

98.6

99.4

99.8

100.0

0.2

0.6

i:f

1:::

27.2

43.3

61.3

75.5

86.2

94.0

97.4

;;.;

100:0

100,0

0.2

J

0.4

0.7

2.3

1::2

18.5

32.8

50.7

63.2

78.8

87.1

94.8

97.2

99.3

99.6

99.9

:::

2.1

12:;

24.6

40.1

51.3

70.6

81.2

91.9

;;.;

99:5

99.9

, .— - I

40
Table 33. Cumulative percent distribution of height

(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age:

in inches of white men in HES

United States

1

Age of white man

li:i.~h:ainI

All ages

18-74 years II

18-24 yeara

I

25-34 years

I

35-44 yearn

I

45-54 years

I

55-64 years

/

65-74 years

yle& .55-------- 0.1

-------- 0.3

Under 62-------- 1.1

Under 63--------

Under 64-------- ::;

Under 65-------- 12.4

Under 66-------- 18.7

Under 67-------- 31.2

gln :;-------- 42.5

-------- 60.7

t7nder70-------- 71.4

Under 71-------- 83.9

Under 72-------- 90.4

Under 73-------- 96.0

Under 74-------- 98.2

Under 75-------- 99.4

t.hder76-------- 99.7

$;

0.6

1.6

:::

12.9

22.8

34.7

48.6

62.9

75.4

84.6

91.7

96.5

98.3

99.0

. ;::

1.7

3:$ 2.3

7.3 3.7

;:.;

1::;

39:8 25,2

54,9 38.1

67.6 52.9

80.4 68.3

86.3 79.5

94.4 86.9

97.5 93.4

99.1 96.3

99.8 97..%

I

Cumulativepercent distribution

.

::: O.i

;.; 0.2

.

M

ii:: 7.7

19.5 17.2

29.8 26.9

47.7 37.6

59.8 53.6

74.6 67.7

83.1 7?.2’

91.9 86.2

95.3 93.9

98.6 96.8

98.9 98.1

0.1 0.3 0.2

0.4 0.;

O.i ;:: ;.; ::; 2.7

1.8 :.; 1.9

3.7 . 5:0 1!::

11.6 M 21.7

1::: 1::: 18.7 12.9 29.0

25.0 19.5 31.5 22,2 41.0

36.6 30.5 42.4 35.7 52.9

56.4 :+.; $:.; 51.0 70.6

68.7 65.5 79.5

83.4 74:0 86:2 78.0 88.7

92.6 8S.1 91.1 85.3 93.8

96.9 92.8 96.7 93.6 98.2

98.8 97.7 98.9 97.7 99.s

99.7 98.9 99.5 99.4 99.8

100.0 99.7 99.8 99.8 99.8

0.6

1.4

:::

%

30.5

$.;

74:k

83.9

92.3

95.7

;;.

$

100:0

100.U

Table 34. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of black men in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (1971-74), by age: United States

1 Age of black men

Height in

inches All ages

M-74 years

lg-24years 25-34yeara 3S.44years 4S-54 years S5-64 years

B:o- BJ- M:o- M;l- u;o- Ml- lg;o- 1;;1- N:o- M#- l:;o- 1;:1-

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

Under

-------- .x--------

62--------

63--------

64--------

--------

%--------

67--------

68--------

69--------

70--------

7i--------

72--------

73--------

74--------

7s--------

76-------

:::

U

1::?

20.6

37.6

S3.7

70.8

79.3

88.7

93.0

97.4

99.7

100.0

100.0 I

0.;

0.7

1.9

It::

17.4

26.3

42.7

54.3

67.2

78.4

87.0

94”1

96.9

99.4

99.9

-. —..

;:;

;:;

18.1

33.8

44.9

S8.5

71.s

82.4

83.5

96.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

Cumulativepercentdistribution

-

I I

2.0 0.8 -

3.8

;:: 1;:?

1!:? 20.8

18.7 3;:: 29.1

29.2 45.8 43.6

40.s ;:.; 53.2

S1.o 68.3

64.7 88:0 77.7

81.3 ;;.; 84.2

90.4 92.S

97.0 98:4 9s.9

100.0 100.0 98.2

100.0 100.0 100.0

... ..-~

0.9

1.6

;:;

1!:;

22.8

36.3

46.9

63.6

72.7

86.7

9S.6

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

;.;

5:3

6.1

1!:?

21.0

37.7

47.1

61.7

71.1

77.6

92.2

92.2

100.0

100.0

. I

0.7

1;::

19.9

30.4

S7.1

7s.1

78.7

86.3

;;.;

100:0

100.0

100.0

%:

3.2

J:?

27.6

Sol

66.2

77.s

86.1

93.6

97.s

98.6

98.8

99.7

1::?

14.5

28.9

33.1

54.3

72.4

89.6

94.1

98.3

98.3

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

1.7

1::2

19.s

28.3

48.1

S8.5

72.4

90.s

96.4

97.9

100.0

100.0

100.0

65-74 years

Lgo- 19#-

3.;

3.4

2?:

27.3

S1.2

64.6

86.4

94.8

97.s

100.0

Loo.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

M

::;

1%

29.7

41.7

60.8

73.4

86.7

9s.0

;:.;

99:7

99.9

100.0

41
Table 35. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of white women in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (1!97’1-74),by age: United States

I

Age of white wmn

Height in All ages

inches M-74 years 18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 6S-74 yearn

l:p- l;;l- l:cl- l;#- 1:;0- M#- l:;o- 1;;1- 1::o- 1;:1-

J

Under 55--------

Under 56--------

Under 57--------

Under 58--------

tJnder59--------

Under 60--------

Under 61--------

Under 62--------

Under 63--------

Under 64--------

Under 65--------

Under 66--------

Under 67--------

Under 68--------

Under 69--------

Under 70--------

Under 71--------

Cumulativepercentdistributim

11

0.1 0.2

0.; 0.2I 0.2

0.2 0.5

M 0.8 1.1

1.6 1.7

M

1::: J:?

21.4 M! 26.5

;;.; 32.8 ;:.;

70:4 ?2:; 74:9

82.3 77.2 83.8

93.9 87.5 94.8

97.3 93.6 97.4

99.1 97.6 99.1

99.4 98.9 99.8

99.8 99.7 99.9

-1

%:

0.6

1.9

&

32:8

54.2

68.0

82.2

89.3

94.5

96.9

99.7

99.9

99.9

.

.

!!::

13.4 w

24.3

39.8

55.1

72.6

84.5

93.0

96.7

98.6

99.4

99.7

0.5

1.0

:::

lN

23.3

43.6

61.9

76.7

87.0

92.3

96.6

98.5

99.8

99.8

100.0

0.;

;:;

1!:!,

20.6,

36.7I

52.0

68.0

82.7

92.8

96.8

98.6

99.4

99.8

100.0

0.2’

0.5

0.7

:::

10.6

18.2

32.5

50.3

63.2

78.5

86.9

94.8

97.3

99.4

99.7

99.9

$$

;:;

6:5

13.3

24.6

39.4

54.6

69.S

82.8

90.8

95.4

98.1

99.2

99.7

:1 0.1

0.5

i:?

1!::

27.5

43.4

;:.;

86:2

94.0

97.5

98.6

99.8

100.0

100.0

l.i

M13.9

27.4

38.0

58.0

72.2

82.8

92.3

97.1

98.7

98.8

99.8

99.8

100.0

0.1

$2

1.2

1$::

18.8

32.8

;;.:

7819

87.8

93.6

97.5

98.9 1 99.5

0.1

;.;

.

1:::

23.7

~;

70:4

80.9

91.7

95.5

98.9

99.6

100.0 — I

Table 36. Cumulative percent distribution of height in inches of black women in HES

(1960-62) and HANES (197’1-74),by ~ge: United States -

Age of black wmam

All ages

18-74 years B-24 years 25-34 yeare 35-44 yearn 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-7.4years

1960-

.

l;;l- l:;o- l;?#- 1:;0. W;l62

Wy- l;;L- 1:;0. l;#- W;o- l;:l- l;;o- 1;;1-

Hd8ht in

inches

Cmulative pmment distribution

Under 55--------

Under 56--------

lhder 57--------

Under 58--------

Umder 59--------

~der 60--------

Under 61--------

Under 62--------

Under 63--------

Under 64--------

Under 65--------

Under 66--------

Under 67--------

Under 68--------

Under 69--------

Under 70--------

Under 71--------

i’:;

0.9

2.4

1::;

19.4

33.7

51.9

60.5

78.7

86.9

93.6

95.8

98.7

99.1

99.6

. 1.1

1.1

:::

1::!

17.1

40.8

62.4

71.3

85.8

93.7

94.8

94.8

95.9

95.9

100.0

2.;

ii:;

25.5

35.1

44.7

68.4

80.7

91.3

92.8

97.9

98.9

98.9

l.i

;:!

M:?

g.;

75;9

85.6

93.2

96.2

99.0

99.0

99.0

-1 -1-

.

.

3.7

3.7

3.7

S

18.4

34.8

54.2

66.6

77.8

88.5

95.3

98.2

99.6

100.0

100.0

o.i - :

0.2 l:; 0.3

1.2

;:: 1:::

20.3 1:::

1,9:2 30.4 ;$:

35.4 50.4

53.2 61.2 41:5

66.7 75.3 66.0

81.9 :3.: 80.3

89.3 86.1

95.5 93:6 90.4

98.5 98.7 95.3

99.1 100.0 99.2

10I9.0 100.0 100.0

i

H

2::1

34.3

51.6

67.3

80.0

94.7/

lUO.O

100.0

100.0’

100.0

100.0, 1 100.0

l,,i

2.1

J:;

18.7

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82.1

90.1

94.7

97.0

98.2

99.3

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67:9

83.3

89.3

93.4

99.3

100.0

100.0

100.0

0.3

0.3

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17.8

38.5

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82:3

90.9

97.6

99.4

100.0

100.0 — I I
Table 37. Percent of adults aged 18-74 years above selected heights in HES (1960-62)

and HANES (1971-74), by age, sex, and race: United States

Sex end race

Men —

Totall------

White-------------

Black-------------

Women

Total i------

White-------------

Black-------------

Age of adults

All ages

M-74 years

18-24 years 25-34 years 35-44 years 45-54 years 55-64 years 65-74 years

1::o- l; J- l:;o- l;jl- 1::o- l;#- l:;o- 1971- 1:5$o- 1971- l:;o- 1971- l:y - l;#-

74 74 74

37

37

39

45

I

49 55

Percent 69 finchesm more

50 60 42 53 35 47 27 39 18

52 :; 54

37 ;; 53 425 %8131,:1i

Percent 64 inches or mare

46 51 42 53 32 45 24 32 17 24

47 51 43 53 32 45 23 32 17 24

48 47 39 58 32 47 29 33 20 26

lIncludes all races.

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APPENDIXES

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II.

III.

Statistical Notes.

Survey Design

Nonresponse .

Mksing Data .

COINTENTS

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Small kmbers . . . . . ...’.... . . . . . . . . . . . .

Standard Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Demographic Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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LIST OF APPENDIX TABLES

Sampling rates by age-sex groups: United States, 1971-74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Percent distribution of nonresponse adjustments factors, HeaIth and Nutrition Examination

Survey :United States, 1971 -74..... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Number of examiners with one ormoremissing anthropmetric measurements, Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: United States, 1971-74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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APPENDIX I

STATISTICAL NOTES

Survey Design

The sampling plan of the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) foIlowed a

highly stratified multistage probability design in

which a sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the coterminous United

States, 1-74 years of age, was selected. Excluded

from the selection process were those persons

confined to institutions or residing on any of the

reservation lands set aside for use by American

Indians. Successive eIements dealt with in the

process of sampling are the primary sampling

unit (PSU), census enumeration district (ED),

segment (a cluster of households), household,

eligible person, and finally, sample person.

The starting points in the first stage of this

design were the 1960 decennial census lists of

addresses and the nearly 1,900 PSU’S into which

the coterminous United States was divided. Each

PSLJ is either a standard metropolitan statistical

area, a single county, or two or three contiguous

counties. The PSU’S were grouped into 357

strata for use in the Health Interview Survey and

subsequently collapsed into 40 superstrata for

the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Of the 40 superstrata, 15 contained a single

large metropolitan area of more than 2 million

population. These 15 large metropolitan areas

were chosen for the sample with certainty. The

remaining 25 superstrata were formed by classifying the noncertainty strata into 4 population

density groups within each of 4 geographic

regions. Then using a modified Goodman-Kish

controlled-selection technique to assure proportionate representation of specified State groups

and rate-of-population-change classes, 2 PSU’S

were chosen from each of the 25 noncertainty

superstrata with the probability of selection of a

PSU proportionate to its 1960 population. In

this manner, a total first-stage sample of 65

PSU’S or “stands” included the areas with in

which a sample of persons would be selected for

examination. The PSU’S were scheduled to be

sampled over a 3-year period with 300-600

persons to be examined per stand.

Although the 1970 census data were used as

the frame for selecting the sample within the

PSU when they became available, the calendar

of operations required that the 1960 census data

be used for the first 44 locations in the HANES

sample. The 1970 census data were used for the

last 21 stands of the sample.

Beginning with the use of the 1970 census

data, the segment size was changed from an

expected 6 households selected from compact

clusters of 18 households to an expected compact cluster of 8 households. The change was

made because of operational advantages, and

research by the Census Bureau indicated that

precision of estimates would not be appreciably

affected by the change from noncornpact clusters to compact clusters.

For ED’s not having usable addresses (generally located in rural areas), area sampling was

employed and consequently some variation in

the segment size occurred. To make the sample

representative of the current population of the

United States, the address or ED segments were

supplemented by a sample of housing units that

had been constructed since the 1960 and 1970

decennial censuses.

Within each PSU, a systematic sample of

segments was selected. The enumeration districts

that fell into the sample were coded into one of

two economic classes. The first class, identified

as the “poverty stratum ,“ was composed of

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“Current Poverty Areas” thfit had been identified by the Bureau of the Census in 1970

(pre-1970 census), plus other ED’s in the PSLJ

with a mean family income of less than $3,0100

in 1959 (based on the 1960 census). The second

economic class, the “nonpoverty stratum, ” incIuded all ED’s not designated as belonging to

the poverty stratum.

All sample segments classified as bcirlg in the

poverty stratum were retained in the s~mple.

For the first 42 stands, sample segments in

nonpoverty stratum ED’s were divided into 8

random subgroups and one of the subgroups was

chosen to remain in the HANES sample. F,csearch indicated ti~at efficiency of estimates

could be increased by changing the ratio of

poverty to nonpoverty segments from 8:1 to

2:1. Therefore in the later stands, the selected

segments in the nonpoverty-strat urn ED’s were

divided into two random subgroups and one of

the subgroups was chosen to remain in the

HANES sample. The differential sampling permits a separate ana]ysis with adequate reliability

of those classified as being below the poverty

level and those classified as being above the

poverty level.

After identification of the sample segments,

a list of all current addresses within the segment

boundaries was made and the households we:re

interviewed to determine the age and sex of each

household member as well as other demographic

and socioeconomic information required for the

survey. If no one was at home after repeated

calls or if the household members refused to be

interviewed, the interviewer tried to determine

the household composition from neighbors.

To select the persons in sample segments to

be examined in HANES and at the same time to

oversimple certain groups at high risk of malnutrition, all household members aged 1-74

years in each segment were first listed on a

sample selection worksheet with each household

in the segment listed serially. The number of

household members in each of the six age-sex

groups shown in table I were then listed on the

worksheet under the appropriate age-sex grou]p

column. The sample selection worksheets were

next put in segment-number order and a systematic random sample of persons in each

age-sex group was selected to be examined usin!;

the sampling rates shown in table 1.

Table 1. Sampling rates by aga-sex groups, United States, 1971-74

Aga and sex Rate

1-5 years (men and women) ......................................... 1/2

6-19 years (men and women) ....................................... 1/4

20-44 years (men) ........................................................ 114

20-44 years (women) ................................................... 112

45454 years (men and women) ..................................... 1/4

65-74 years (men and women) ..................................... 1

The persons selected in the 65-staLhd sample

of HANES comprised a representative sample of

the target population and included 28,043 sample persons 1-74 years of age of whom 20,749 or

74 percent were examined. When adjustments were made for different sampling for

high-risk groups, the response rate became 75

percent.

All data presented in this report are based on

“weighted” observations. That is, data recorded

for each person are inflated to characterize the

subuniverse from which that sample person was

drawn. The weight for each examined ~erson is a

product of the reciprocal of the probability of

selecting the person, an adjustment for nonresponse cases (i.e., persons not examined), and a

poststratified ratio adjustment which increases

precison by bringing survey results into closer

alignment with known U.S. population figures

for 20 age, race, and sex groups as of November

1, 1972, the approximate midpoint of HANES.

A more detailed description of the survey

design and selection technique can be found in

“Plan and C)peration of the Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey, United States, 1971-

1973 ,“ Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1-

Number 10a.

Nonresponse

In any health examination survey, after the

sample is identified and the sample persons are

requested to participate in the examination, the

survey meets one of its more severe problems,

namely that of nonresponse. Usually a sizable

number of sample persons will not participate in

the examination. A further potential for bias

results if the sample persons who do not

participate differ from the sample persons examined with respect to the characteristics under

examination. Intensive efforts were made in

HANES to develop and implement procedures

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and inducements that would reduce the number

of nonrespondents and thereby reduce the potential of bias due to nonresponse. These procedures and inducements are discussed in “Plan

and Operation of the Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey, United States, 1971-

1973,” Series l-Number 10a.

Despite these intensive efforts, 25 percent of

the sample persons from 65 stands were not

examined as compared to previous surveys with

response rates of more than 86 percent. Consequently, the potential for a sizable bias does

exist in the 1971-74 estimates in the publication. Because more than 95 percent of the

sample persons responded to a medicaI questionnaire in 1971-74, one could examine the

characteristics of the nonrespondents and the

nature of nonresponse. This examination indicated that the likelihood of sizabIe bias is sma.11.

As was mentioned earIier, the data in this

report were based on weighted observations, and

one of the components of the weight assigned to

an examined person was an adjustment for

nonresponse. A procedure was adopted which

multiplies the reciprocal of the probability of

selection of sample persons who were examined

by a factor that brings estimates based on examined persons up to a level that would have been

achieved if all sample persons had been examined. The nonresponse-adjustment factor was

calculated by dividing the sum of the reciprocals

of the probability of selection for all selected

sample persons in each of five income groups

within each stand by the sum of the reciprocals

of the probability of selection for examined

sample persons in the same stand and income

~roup. The five income groups were: under

$3,000; $3,000-$6,999; $7,000-$9,999;

$10,000-$ 14,999; and $15,000 and over. For

sample weighting purposes, income group was

imputed for 5.6 percent of the sample persons

using educational level of the head of the

household. To the extent that the incomewithin-stand classes were homogeneous with

respect to the health characteristics under study,

the. adjustment procedure was effective in reducin~ the potential of bias due to nonresponse.

The percent distribution of the nonresponse

adjustment factors computed for the 65-stand

sample of HANES is shown in table II.

Table 11. Percent distribution of nonresponse adjustment factors,

Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: United States,

1971-74

Size of factor I

Percent

distribution

I

Total .............. .................................... 100.0

l.00.1.24 ........................................................... 32.6

l.25.1.49 ........................................................... 38.5

l.50.1.74 ...................... ..................................... 18.2

1.75-1.99 ........................................................... 7.4

2.00-2.49 .............................................. ............. 2.8

2.50-2.99 ........................................... ................ 0.3

3.001................................................................. 0.3

1A ~iZeof 3.00 was assigned for all factors greater than

3.oO. The final poststratified ratio adjustment corrects for this

truncation.

Missing Data

Examination surveys are subject to the Ioss

of information not only through the faiIure to

examine a.11sample persons but a.ko from the

faiIure to obtain and record alI items of information for examined persons. Age, sex, and race

were known for every examined person, but for

a number of examinees one or more of the

anthropometric measurements were not available. The extent of these missing measurements

is indicated in table III.

Estimates for missing anthropometnc data

were generally made subjectively on the basis of

a multiple-regression type decision, substituting

for the missing measurements those of an individuzd who was of the same age, sex, and race

and who had other dimensions similar to those

available for the examinee with incomplete data.

For those with no anthropometric measurements available, a respondent of the same agesex-race group was selected at random and his

Table I I 1. Number of examinees with one or more missing anthropometric measurements, Health and Nutrition Examination

Survey: United Statesr 1971-74

t

Measurement missing I

Number of

examinees

I

All measurements ......................................... 23

Height only ........................................................ 15

Weight only ........................................................ 45

Height and weight .............................................. 4

t

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measurements were assigned to the nonexamined person,

Small Numbers

In some tables, magnitudes are shown for

cells for which the sample size is so sma.11that

the standard error may be several times as great

as the statistic itself. In such instances the numbers, if shown, have been included ordy to convey an impression of the overall story of the

table.

Standard Errors

The probability design of the survey makes

possible the estimation of standard errors corresponding to the weighted estimates presented.

The standard error is primarily a measure of

sampling variability, that is, the variations that

might occur by chance because only a sample of

the population is surveyed. As calculated for this

report, the standard error also reflects part of

the variation which arises in the measurement

process. It does not include estimates of any

biases which might Iie in the data. The chances

are about 68 out of 100 that an estipate from

the sample would differ from a compIete census

by less than the standard error. The chances are

about 95 out of 100 that the difference would

be less than twice the standard error and about

99 out of 100 that it would be less than 2?4

times as large,

Estimates of standard errors are obtained

from the sample data and are themselves subject

to sampling error when the number of cases in a

cell is small, or even occasionally wheri the number of cases is substantial.

Estimates of the standard errors for selected

statistics used in this report are presented in

tables 4, 11, 15, and 22, These estimates have

been prepared by a replication technic@e which

yields overall variability through observation of

variability among random subsampks of the

total sample. Again, readers are reminded that

these estimated standard errors do not reflect

any residual bias which might still be present

after the attempted correction for nom-esponse.

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APPENDIX II

DEMOGRAPHIC TERMS

The demographic characteristics of the population sampled are d~fined as follows:

Age. –The age recorded for each examinee

was the age at his last birthday on the date of

examination. The age criterion for inclusion in

the sample used in this survey was defined in

terms of his age at time of census interview.

Some of those who were 74 years old at the

time of interview became 75 years old by the

time of the examination. There were 20 such

cases. In the adjustment and weighting proce0

dures used to produce national estimates, these

persons were included in the 74-year-old group.

Race. –For each individual, race was recorded by observation as ‘~white,” “black,” or

“other races.” The last category included American Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and all races

other than white or black. Mexican persons were

included with “white” unless definitely known

to be American Indian or of another race other

than white’. Blacks and persons of mixed black

and other parentage were recorded as “black.”

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