THE EFFECTS OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND SKINFOLD THICKNESS AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS (A CASE STUDY KANO MUNICIPAL COUNCIL)
Abstract
The present study was aimed to assess the role of socioeconomic status on height, weight, and skinfold thickness of primary school children between the ages of 5-13 years. The study was conducted on 300 student, this height, weight, fathers occupation, skinfold thickness, sex and age obtained. The result of the study indicated statistically significant correlation between weight and skinfold thickness in the male subjects and female also statistically significant of weight for female subjects.
A one way of ANOVA was used to access the relationship between age, weight, height and occupation, the p-value was statistically significant for.
In conclusion, Height, weight and skinfold thickness has strong statistical relationship with the occupation of parents as shown by the result.
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