Body Mass Index of Government and Public School Students:A Comparative Study

Abstract

Body mass index (BMI), as an important indicator of an individual’s physical quality, is used to measure the total amount of body fat. And it is commonly used internationally to judge the degree of obesity, wasting and health of the human body.Fifty Government and fifty public school students from various schools of Lucknow, U. P., who were regularly participating Sports Competition were selected as the subject for present study. The Independent ‘t’ test was used to assess overall differences between Government and Public school students. The level of significant set up at 0.5 level of confidence. The result reveals that there is a statistically significant difference of body mass (t = 3.1151 > .05) was found between Government and Public School students. The Government school students incur significantly less obese as compare than their counterparts.