Heterogeneity in adult anthropometry by socioeconomic factors: Indian National Family Health Survey 2006 and 2016

Recent evidence suggests nonconstant nature of dispersion in adult women’s body mass index (BMI) across sociodemographic groups. The overall variances in BMI and height are also shown to have substantially changed over time. We modeled complex variation in adults’ anthropometry—BMI and height—by wealth and education, and assessed their differences over time in India. Data from a total of 768,130 women and 180,691 men from the Indian National...