CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES AMONG THE GIRLS OF 18 TO 23 YEARS OF AGE OF LUCKNOW UNIVERSITY

 Dr. Mamta Dogra

Abstract

 The main purpose of the study was to make cross-sectional analysis of Anthropometric variables among the girls of 18 to 23 years of age of Lucknow University. For the purpose of this study, six hundred college going girls of between the age of 18 to 23 years of six age groups of different colleges of Lucknow University were randomly selected out of the total roll list of the academic session 2009-10. Two hundred subjects from each of the stream of education i.e. Arts, Science and Commerce were selected randomly as subjects for this study. From each age group hundred subjects were further selected as subjects of this study. The study was delimited to the selected Anthropometric variables such as Body Weight, Standing Height, Sitting Height, Leg Length and Arm Length. For analysis the data, descriptive and comparative statistics was used. The statistical analysis of data was done by using analysis of variance (ANOVA). The level of significance was set at 0.01. Significant difference was found among all selected variables among girls of 18 to 23 years age group.

 Keywords: Height, Sitting Height, Arm Length and Leg Length.