conducted
to see the impact of socio-economic factors on
nutritional status of 161 primary school children
between ages 6–11 years. Primary schools were selected
on basis of socioeconomic characters of schools’
catchments areas. Systematic random sampling
technique was applied to collect the sample from school
students. Data was collected through a Performa that
was a pre-tested questionnaire. The criterion set for
assessing nutrition status in this study was BMI for age
in relation to the growth chart of National Centre for
health statistics reference population.
Data was analysed with the help of SPSS-10.0
and test of significance used was Chi-Square.