Canonical Correlation Analysis to Study the Impacts of Different Social Factors on Level of BMI and Prevalence of Diabetes Among Children and Adolescents of Some Affluent Families

The present analysis was done using the data collected from 662 children observed from 560 randomly selected families of students of American International University – Bangladesh. Among the investigated children and youth 465 were in underweight group . Obesity and severe obesity were observed among 9.1 percent children and adolescents. It was evident that level of obesity and prevalence of diabetes were significantly associated and these two characters were associated with different socioeconomic variables of the parents and of the respondents. Thus canonical correlation analysis was performed to study the complex relations of level of obesity and prevalence of diabetes with other socioeconomic variables. The analysis indicated that important variables for complex relationship of level of BMI and prevalence of diabetes were parents’ education, age of children, family income and food habit of the children.