1Research Scholar, Department of Physical Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh
2Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Online published on 10 March, 2016.
The purpose of the study was to compare body mass index (BMI) among government school girls of Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. To attain the objective of the study, a total sample of three thousand (N=3000) school girls (one thousand school girls each from Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh) were selected as subject of the study by using stratified random sampling technique. Height and weight were taken to calculate the body mass index (BMI) among school girls. The age of the subjects ranged between 15–18 years. To find out the significance differences among school girls on body mass index, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was computed with the help of SPSS software. Further scheffe's post-hoc test was used to see the direction and significances of differences where ‘F’ ratio was found significant. The level of significance chosen was.05. Statistical calculation on the gathered data showed that significant difference was found on body mass index (BMI) among government school girls of Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The finding reveals that Chandigarh school girls have higher BMI mean value than Haryana and Himachal Pradesh school girls. Whereas, Himachal Pradesh school girls found in mild thinness category of underweight.
Height, Weight, BMI, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, School Girls
