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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Hum Resour. 2020 Sep 11;57(6):1885–1914. doi: 10.3368/jhr.58.2.0320-10803r1

Table 1.

Spousal Height Differences, UK Millennium Cohort Study

Husband height minus wife height (cm) Proportion in: Ratio of actual to random
actual distribution random distribution

< −10 0.6% 1.3% 0.47
−10 to −5 1.5% 2.6% 0.58
−5 to 0 1.9% 2.5% 0.77
0 to 5 8.5% 8.7% 0.97
5 to 10 16.3% 14.5% 1.12
10 to 15 21.3% 19.2% 1.11
15 to 20 20.7% 19.7% 1.05
20 to 25 15.3% 15.8% 0.97
25 to 30 8.8% 9.4% 0.94
30 to 35 3.7% 4.2% 0.87
> 35 1.4% 2.1% 0.66

Notes: Data taken from Table 1 of Stulp et al. (2013).