title: The evolution of adult height across Spanish regions, 1950-1980: a new source of data.
abstract: We present new evidence concerning the evolution of adult height across Spanish regions for the 1950-1980 male and female birth cohorts, using the augmented sample of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for Spain. This augmented sample, available only for the year 2000, contains self-reported height data representative at the Autonomous Community level. The average heights of these two sets of birth cohorts, female and male, are found to increase by 1.7 and 1.6cm/decade, respectively. Making available a new dataset of quinquennial mean heights will allow researchers to study the determinants of population heights by means of a within-country analysis.
authors.affiliation: Universitat d'Alacant and IZA, Spain. climent@ua.es
authors.forename: Climent
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quintana-Domeque
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bozzoli
authors.forename: Mariano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bosch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D019456:Health Transition; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*