Stature, Sitting Height and Relative Sitting Height of Female Northern Kyushuites

Abstract

Stature, sitting height and relative sitting height (a ratio of sitting height to stature) of 318 high school girls of 17 years of age in Kitakyushu City were studied. They consisted of groups over a three-year period; 1973, 1980 and 1984 There are statistically no significant changes in the stature, in the sitting height, and in the relative sitting height among these three groups The relative sitting height of these three groups is about 54%, which is about the same as among the Chinese, Eskimos, American-Indians and the Hokkaido-Ainu.