Differences in Selected Health Traits between Occupational Groups among Oraons of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of somatotype components in agricultural and brickfield labourers of either sex.

Somatotype components	Male					Female
	Agriculture labourer (𝑛=62)		Brickfield labourer; (𝑛=136)		t-test; (df = 196)	Agriculture labourer (𝑛=43)		Brickfield labourer; (𝑛=116)		t-test; (df = 157)
	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.		Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
Endomorphy	1.81	0.44	1.77	0.68	0.36	2.45	0.76	2.77	1.09	1.71
Mesomorphy	2.72	0.84	2.70	0.90	0.46	2.22	0.74	2.46	0.96	1.00
Ectomorphy	4.24	1.02	4.12	1.05	0.75	3.59	0.88	3.36	1.15	1.21
𝑋	2.44	1.15	2.35	1.45	0.40	1.14	1.49	0.59	1.97	1.65
𝑌	−0.57	2.61	−0.54	2.49	0.07	−1.53	1.89	−1.28	2.46	0.59