Nutritional Inferences From The All India Anthropometrical Survey : The Haryana Data.

ABSTRACT

Data from the 1971 All India Anthropometrics survey conducted by the anthropological Survey of India can provide a useful assessment of the nutritional status both of individuals and of aggregate population groups. This paper examines the published basic data on Haryana from that survey (De et al. 1990). These data consist of measurements of 800 adult males equally divided into sixteen samples from four caste groups (Brahmins, Jat Sikhs, Rajputs, and Harijans) in four districts. The distribution of stature suggests that may individuals of each group , and especially the Harijans may have suffered chronic under nutrition during their growth years. Assessment of weight adjusting for variations in stature by use of Body Mass Index (BMI) = weightkg/ staturem2) suggests that at the time of the 1971 survey many of the subjects in all four caste groups continued to suffer from nutritional historic base-line for future studied of secular trends in physical growth and nutritional status in populations undergoing substantial economic and social transformation