Bassino and Coclanis (2008) employ a dataset of heights in Myanmar between the 1810s and the 1880s in their study of colonial administration and economic development. The dataset is based on a British colonial ethnographic survey conducted in 1904. This dataset covers men between the ages of 21 and 85. The original measurements were made in British inches and the survey was carried out in order to discern whether the average statures of 13 distinct ethnic groups differed across six districts in each of Upper- and Lower Burma. Social selectivity is not a problem here. Occupations were not recorded in this survey.