Anthropometry and Body Image Survey of 150 Nigerian Undergraduate Women

150 anonymized records from a cross-sectional study of nulliparous female undergraduate students aged 16–25 years in southeastern Nigeria. The dataset includes standardized anthropometric measurements, derived indices, and body image questionnaire responses. Emeka Anyanwu published the data on figshare in 2026 under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Train regression models to predict body image scores based on objective anthropometric measures like BMI and waist-hip ratio.
• Test the validity of categorical body-shape typologies using latent mixture modeling techniques.
• Analyze the minimal predictive power of objective morphology on body image outcomes, supporting sociocultural models.
• Replicate the study's effect size analyses (η²) and ANCOVA-adjusted marginal means calculations.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 150 participant records with standardized anthropometric measurements.
• Multiple derived morphometric indices are provided, including BMI, WHR, WHtR, bust-waist ratio, and hip-waist difference.
• Body image outcomes are assessed using a 34-item validated questionnaire (BSQ).
• The repository contains supplementary materials like a STROBE checklist for methodological transparency.

Limitations

• The dataset is small in scale at 206.0 KB, with an unknown row count, limiting statistical power for some analyses.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a specific geographic and demographic bias, being limited to young, nulliparous women from two Nigerian universities.

Provenance

Source

Emeka Anyanwu

Collection Method

Descriptive analytic cross-sectional design with standardized anthropometric measurements and questionnaire administration.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-24 16:38:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeastern Nigeria (two public universities)