Height of 0-18 year old Finnish children

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Scope

The variable describes the height of Finnish children aged 0-18 years by sex and age.

Definition

Data

Information about the mean and the 95% confidence interval (2.5th and 97.5th percentiles) of heigh at each month from 0 to 2 years of age and at each year from 2 to 18 years of age was extracted from growth charts for Finnish children (mean +/- 2SD curves) by visual extrapolation. Information extracted can be found in Media:Height0_2yrs.xls and Media:Height2_18yrs.xls.

Causality

None

Unit

cm

Result

Height of a random child in the Finnish population by sex and age

	Girls			Boys
Age (months)	Mean	-2SD	+2SD	Mean	-2SD	+2SD
0	51.154	46.923	55.769	50.923	46.923	55.000
1	54.615	50.385	58.846	55.000	50.385	59.462
2	57.692	53.692	62.154	58.385	53.538	63.077
3	60.923	56.538	64.615	61.154	56.538	65.769
4	63.077	58.846	67.308	64.077	58.923	69.231
5	65.000	60.769	69.615	66.385	61.154	71.385
6	66.538	62.154	71.154	68.154	63.077	73.692
7	68.462	63.462	73.231	70.000	64.462	75.769
8	70.000	65.231	75.000	71.462	65.769	76.923
9	71.154	66.538	76.308	72.769	66.923	78.615
10	72.308	67.538	77.692	73.846	68.154	79.615
11	73.692	68.615	79.231	75.154	69.692	80.615
12	75.000	69.615	80.385	76.154	70.462	81.769
13	76.154	70.385	81.692	76.923	71.923	82.385
14	76.923	71.154	83.077	77.846	72.385	83.462
15	78.308	72.308	84.231	79.000	73.462	84.385
16	79.231	73.308	85.231	80.000	74.462	85.385
17	80.154	74.231	86.538	81.077	75.538	86.538
18	81.154	75.000	87.538	81.846	76.154	87.538
19	81.923	75.769	88.462	82.846	76.769	88.769
20	83.231	76.538	89.769	83.462	77.538	89.769
21	84.077	77.308	90.769	84.385	78.308	90.923
22	84.846	78.077	91.769	85.385	78.923	91.923
23	85.615	78.846	92.692	86.538	79.846	93.231
24	86.538	79.615	93.462	87.385	80.38461538	94.231

	Girls			Boys
Age (years)	Mean	-2SD	+2SD	Mean	-2SD	+2SD
2	85.128	80.000	91.282	87.179	80.000	93.744
3	93.333	87.179	100.103	96.000	88.205	103.590
4	101.128	93.333	108.308	103.179	94.974	110.769
5	107.692	99.897	116.923	109.744	100.718	117.949
6	113.846	105.231	123.077	115.897	106.667	124.103
7	120.000	110.769	129.231	121.026	111.795	130.462
8	125.128	116.308	134.769	127.179	116.923	136.410
9	129.641	120.615	140.513	131.282	122.051	141.538
10	135.795	124.718	146.462	137.436	127.179	146.667
11	141.744	129.641	154.872	141.538	130.667	153.846
12	147.282	134.359	161.026	147.282	135.385	159.385
13	153.846	139.487	167.179	151.795	139.487	165.128
14	157.949	145.641	171.282	157.949	144.615	172.308
15	161.641	149.744	174.154	166.154	150.359	181.538
16	163.692	152.718	174.769	172.308	157.333	186.667
17	164.513	154.872	174.769	174.359	162.051	187.692
18	164.718	155.282	174.974	176.205	165.128	188.308