Anthropometric Survey of Royal Transport Corpsmen 1976

Survey Description

This data set was preserved and included in the archives of the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (AMRL) by Charles Clauser and John McConville. The archive was called the AMRL Data Bank Library and the data were originally stored on 9 mm magnetic tapes and in a standardized format in Fortran Code.

THIS GROUP IS A SAMPLE OF 161 ROYAL TRANSPORT CORPSMEN MEASURED AS PART OF A SERIES OF SURVEYS OF U.K. ARMY ANTHROPOMETRY BY THE BRITISH RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT'S APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY DIVISION. THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THIS RESEARCH WAS C.Y. GOODERSON WHO SUPPLIED THE DATA TO C.E. CLAUSER, AFAMRL. A TOTAL OF 60 DIMENSIONS, PLUS AGE, WERE MEASURED USING THE MODIFIED MORANT METHOD AND EQUIPMENT DEVELOPED BY THE RAE AND IAM,FARNBOROUGH. THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY WERE NOT PUBLISHED. FOR A DESCRIPTION OF LANDMARKS AND MEASURING TECHNIQUE SEE ANTHROPOMETRY OF 500 INFANTRYMEN 1973-1974, BY C.Y. GOODERSON & MARGARET BEEBEE, ARMY PERSONNEL RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT REPORT #17/76. 

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Included Measurement

HEAD CIRC

BITRAG-CORONAL A

HEAD BREADTH

BITRAGION DIA

MAX HEAD DIA MEN

MENTON B HEAD

MENTON VERTEX

TRAGION B HEAD

TRAGION VERTEX

PUPIL TO VERTEX

NASION TO VERTEX

HEAD LENGTH

BUTTOCK-HEEL LEN

VER FUNCTIONAL R

THIGH CLEAR HGT

STOMACH DEPTH SI

CHEST DEPTH SIT

FUNCTIONAL REACH

BUTTOCK-KNEE LEN

KNEE HEIGHT

SITTING HEIGHT

SHOULDER HEIGHT

ACROMIAL HEIGHT

ELBOW REST HEIGH

BIDELTOID BREADT

STOOL HEIGHT

BIACROMIAL BREAD

HIP BREADTH SIT

CERVICAL HEIGHT

STATURE

AXILLA HEIGHT

WAIST HEIGHT

FINGERTIP HEIGHT

CROTCH HEIGHT

SPAN

INTER-ELBOW SPAN

ELBOW-FINGERTIP

ELBOW-FUNCTIONAL

ELBOW-WRIST LENG

ANKLE CIRC

CALF CIRC

THIGH CIRC

BUTTOCK CIRC

WAIST CIRC

CHEST CIRC

NECK CIRC

ELBOW CIRC BENT

KNEE CIRC BENT

BALL OF FOOT CIR

INSTEP-SOLE CIRC

HEEL-INSTEP CIRC

FOOT LENGTH

FOOT BREADTH

HAND LENGTH

HAND BREADTH

BICEPS SKF

SUPRAILIAC SKF

TRICEPS SKF

SUBSCAPULAR SKF

WEIGHT

AGE

CURRENT DUTY

CURRENT UNIT

DATE MEASURED

DATE OF BIRTH

HANDEDNESS

COUNTRY OF BIRTH

COUNTY OF BIRTH