CHILDREN AGES 6 TO 11 WEIGHT AND STRUCTURAL BODY DIMENSIONS DESCRIPTION “To date, very litle anthropometric data have been availabe to the designer with regard to functional body measurements of infants and children. Such information is vital tothe proper design of juvenile fur- riture and preschool, school, and other intrior environments for use by children. What makes the need for such data even more critical is that the element of safety as well as comfort is at stake. There is & ‘strong relationship between improperly designed furniture and acci- dental death and injury to children. Cases of strangulation and neck impingement in cribs and high chairs, for example, are not uncom= mon. Table 7 provides some anthropometric data in the form of body ‘measurements of children from 6 to 11 years of age in the United ‘Sates from 1963 to 1965. Although the measurements are structural rather than functional, they should be useful to the designer, (The ‘measurements were converted from centimeters to inches, which ‘explains why there are some discrepancies within the tables.) Proper allowances for clothing and shoes should be added to all data, For addtional anthropometric data conceming infants and children, & 1978 study prepared by Snyder, Spencer, Owings, and Schneider, all ofthe University of Michigan, for the Society of Automotive En” gineers, entiled Anthropometry of U.S. Infants and Chiloren, is highly recommended. SOURCE Robert M. Malina, Peter V. V. Hamill, and Stanley Lemeshow, Na- tionay Health Exemination Survey: Selected Body Measurements of Children 6-11 Years, 1963-1965 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govern- ‘ment Printing Office, Vital and Health Stalistics Series 11, no, 123, DHEW publication no. 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