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Statures and weights are from the 2008-11 DEGS1 health survey.

In cross-checking with the 2004 DIN33402 data it was noted that SD’s in that dataset are distinctly smaller than in the UK data, with (for example) stature CV’s being only 3.6% rather than the 4% normally reported and found in all UK datasets and NHANES. Also average statures in DIN33402 are smaller than expected, at 1750 mm for men 18-65 and 1625 for women. These would make the men shorter than UK and US men (1760, 1770), and women shorter than US and on a par with UK women, while historically they have been taller. The DEGS1 data show the men at 1778 and the women at 1645, so while noting this element of disparity with the DIN standard, the DEGS1 data have been used.

As in previous releases bodily proportions were taken to be the same as in UK and US populations, with fatty dimensions adjusted for weight using the same techniques.