Ethnic Groups and Anthropometric Differences in Colombia

Número: 
731
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
I12, I14, N36, Z13
Palabras clave: 
anthropometry, ethnicity, biological well-being

Using data from the 2010 Colombia Demographic and Health Survey and of the National Survey of the Nutritional Situation in Colombia (ENDS-ENSIN), we analyzed the evolution of the height for the Colombian birth cohorts in the period 1946-1992 by ethnic gro