A modestly sized conscript dataset on Austria was collected by Christian Schlesiger (2016). It contains height measurements between 1878 and 1911. The ages of the conscripts were between 20 and 22 years. The birth years covered range from 1857 to 1890. Austrian conscription covered the whole population with very few exceptions at that time. The geographic coverage includes parts of lower Austria as well as Styria and Carinthia. Although occupations were recorded in the original lists, they did not follow a consistent convention. Since Schlesiger did not record the occupations in large numbers, we did not include them in the public access dataset. As the heights of the recruits were recorded before the military selection process, selectivity is most likely not a strong issue in this dataset.