Master of Arts Oral Examination Economics-FR

Event Details:

UNBF's Department of Economics will hold a MA Oral Defense, for Saibiao Peng, entitled "What is the Relationship between Industry, Occupation, and Body Weight in Canada?"

Examining Committee

Supervisor:        Dr. Phil Leonard

Chairperson:     Dr. Yuri Yevdokimov

Internal Readers: Dr. Paul Peters, Dr. Weiqiu Yu

ABSTRACT

Overweight and obesity are well known to be associated with negative health outcomes. Canadians spend a large portion of their waking hours at work and their level of physical activity (or lack thereof) and eating habits while there likely play a role in their body weight. This study examines the association between industry and occupation of work and the likelihood of overweight and obesity. This paper managed to discover social economic factors and human behavior factors that will help identify groups that are most at risk of being overweight and obese. Cycle 5 of NPHS and all eight cycles of CCHS are used in logit and fixed-effect models to run regression analysis. Results show that compared to males, females are less likely to become overweight and obese, age has negative effect on people’s body weight, and people who live in Ontario, Birth Columbia have the lowest risk of being overweight and obese.  Also the results indicate that the following variables: education, household-income, physical activity and eating habits are negatively associated with being overweight and obese For industry and occupation, the results show: people who work at public administration and education industry have highest risk to become obese; Occupation as manager or sales contribute most to people’s risk of being obese.

Building: Singer Hall

Room Number: 449