TY  - JOUR
T1  - Gender differences in nutritional status among the adult Meiteis of Cachar district of Assam, India
AU  - Barbhuiya, A. F. Gulenur İslam
AU  - Das, Rekha
PY  - 2014
DA  - December
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Anthropology
JO  - Euras J Anthropol
PB  - ÖREN-ADRAMYTTEİON ANTİK KENTİ KÜLTÜR TURİZM VE DOĞA DERNEĞİ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2166-7411
SP  - 36
EP  - 44
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - The present paper intends to study the gender differences in nutritional status with referenceto age, education and family income. The data have been collected by household census methodand nutritional anthropometry among 264 adult Meiteis (123 males, and 141 females) of 20 to79 years age of Cachar District of Assam, India. The study reveals that more than 30percentage of the populations are suffering from chronic energy deficiency (CED)malnutrition (males=27.6%, females=33.3%) while more than 7 percentage of the adults arebattling with over-nutrition (males=8.1%, females=6.4%). Chi-square test doesn’t show anysignificant (P=0.356) difference in nutritional status between males and females. Althoughslight positive association exists between body mass index (BMI) and age (rxy=0.056) but BMIof the adult Meiteis show significant positive association with year of schooling (rxy=0.143,P<0.05) and annual family income (rxy=0.215, P<0.01).
KW  - Adult
KW  - sex
KW  - age group
KW  - educational status
KW  - income category
CR  - Askovic B, Kirchengast S. (2012) Gender differences in nutritional behavior and weight status during early and late adolescence. Anthropol Anz 69:289-304.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/eja/issue//620659
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/808752
ER  -