Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children, 1997-1998

Research Question: Is there a relationsip between a childs desire to change their body and whether they are on a diet, and feeling pressured by school work?

Sources of Data: Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children, 1997-1998

Summary of Statistical Procedure: A comparison of correlations is used to look at any association between the variables listed above.

Findings:

SDA 2.1: Corrtab Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 1997-1998

Oct 28, 2006 (Sat 09:12 AM EDT)

Variables Role Name Label Range MD Dataset Var #1 Q30 ON A DIET 1-3 -9 1 Var #2 Q27 CHANGE BODY 1-2 -9 1 Row Q54 PRESSURED BY SCHOOL WORK 1-4 -9 1 Weight W0 POPULATION WEIGHTS 2.06-17,390.55 -9.00 1

Main Statistics Cells contain: -Pearson Corr -N of cases Q54 1: Not at all .37 2,410 2: A little .32 5,218 3: Some .31 4,083 4: A lot .28 3,578 COL TOTAL .32 15,289

Color coding: <-2.0 <-1.0 <0.0 >0.0 >1.0 >2.0 T Correlation in each cell: Smaller than average Larger than average

Allocation of cases (unweighted) Valid cases 15,289 Cases with invalid codes on row variable 143 Cases with invalid codes on cell variables 254 Total cases 15,686

Datasets 1 /SDA/SAMHDA/03522-0001 2 /SDA/SAMHDA/03522-0001

CSM, UC Berkeley

Discussion of Findings: The comparison of correlations shows a moderate correlation between a child who wants to change their body or is on a diet and feeling pressured by school work. However, I was suprised that the strongest correlation indicated that students who might want to change their body or are on a diet feel no pressure from school work.