Variation of hip circumference with reference to rural-urban migration of Poundra population, India

Pages: 1943-1946
Atreyo Mondal, Sonali Walia, and Savitesh Kushwaha (Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi)

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the difference of height, weight and hip circumference among the rural and urban Poundra caste population. A cross sectional study method was conducted with the total of 251 adults (148 rural & 103 migrated urban both males & females) were taken from the Poundra caste of rural and urban origin population. Somatometric measurements like height, weight and hip circumference were considered for this present study. From the findings of the present study it can be concluded that there is a significant difference of height, weight and hip circumference between overall male and female. It is observed that the values for urban male weight and hip circumference parameters are significantly greater in the overall population but for hip circumference category the female value is found to be higher than the male. When compared with rural males and urban males’ weight and hip circumference is found to be highly significant in urban counterpart but with urban female and rural female the weight and hip circumference parameters were found to be greater in urban females. With the age wise differences, the height, weight and hip circumference were found to be significantly different in female category. In conclusion, it is evident from the results that place of residence had impact on the somatometric characteristics among the migrated population.