Food Habits of XUB Resident Students

1. FOOD HABITS OF XUB RESIDENT
STUDENTS
(A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY
EXERCISE)
Sampad Acharya |
ur15037
Shashank Guwalani |
ur15041
Bipasha Ghosh |
ur15014
Swati Mohanty |
ur15045

2. SUMMARY
For the purpose of our assignment, we conducted a research exercise
on ‘Food Habits of Students of XUB’
Food is one of the primary drivers in a student or a professional life.
Your food choices each day affect your health — how you feel today,
tomorrow, and in the future.
Good nutrition Combined with physical activity, diet can help one
reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce risk of chronic diseases
and promote overall health.
Because of unpredictable schedules in the campus, consumption
patterns of students is taking toll on their health and lifestyle.
Limited food options available in the campus; taste and preference of
the students is very polarized and limited to the whatever few options
that are available.

3. • To find out the causes and its effects of the food
price, quality and the food habits of XUB resident
students and how this is affecting their daily
lifestyle
Rational of
proposed
research
• Study the cause-effect relationship of food habits
of XUB resident students and to analyse how this
affect their lifestyle
Objective
• So far, there has been no similar exercise done on
the subject
• we do intend to achieve our objective by doing a
cross sectional study on a stratified random sample
Literature
Review

4. METHODOLOGY
SURVEY : We carried out an offline survey where we interviewed
students in the XUB Campus and all streams were involved. A set of
10 questions were asked to be rated according to the likert scale
SAMPLING : We took a stratified sample of 30 respondents
representing the various schools of XUB in a proportionate fashion
DATA COLLECTION METHOD : We used questionnaires to collect data
responses from the sample we identified.
INSTRUMENTS FOR DATA COLLECTION : Physical Stationeries and
Excel input were used for collecting data.
DATA COLLATION/PROCESSING PLAN : The data was collated and
coded on MS Excel and processing using a powerful processing tool
by the name of IBM SPSS 22 Statistics.

5. ANALYSIS
My mess bill is well within my monthly budget
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulativ
e Percent
Valid 1
5 16.7 16.7 16.7
2
9 30.0 30.0 46.7
3
7 23.3 23.3 70.0
4
8 26.7 26.7 96.7
5
1 3.3 3.3 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
Variety/Options available in the menu is exhaustive
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulative
Percent
Valid 1
7 23.3 23.3 23.3
2
12 40.0 40.0 63.3
3
8 26.7 26.7 90.0
4
2 6.7 6.7 96.7
5
1 3.3 3.3 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
46% strongly disagree or disagree that their
mess bill is well within their budget, 23.3% are
undecided on the fact. This is a clear indicator
that food items in the hostel mess are
Even though the food items are perceived to be
over-priced, a majority of the resident students
also feel that the current options available is not
enough to cater to their taste and preferences.

6. ANALYSIS
The cancellation policies are flexible in mess
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulativ
e Percent
Valid 1
7 23.3 23.3 23.3
2
10 33.3 33.3 56.7
3
4 13.3 13.3 70.0
4
6 20.0 20.0 90.0
5
3 10.0 10.0 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
Alternative healthy food outlets should be available
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulative
Percent
Valid 1
2 6.7 6.7 6.7
4
8 26.7 26.7 33.3
5
20 66.7 66.7 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
major portion of the sample disagrees that policies regarding cancellation of meals is inflexible
and not student-friendly and hence feel that alternate healthy options must be available thus
implying that the food in the mess is perceived to be spicy, oily and relatively unhealthy.

7. ANALYSIS
Religious and social practices affect my consumption preferences
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulativ
e Percent
Valid 1
10 33.3 33.3 33.3
2
8 26.7 26.7 60.0
3
6 20.0 20.0 80.0
4
2 6.7 6.7 86.7
5
4 13.3 13.3 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
Room delivery service by campus eating outlet(s) that provide it is
efficient and on-time
Frequency Percent
Valid
Percent
Cumulativ
e Percent
Valid 1
4 13.3 13.3 13.3
2
5 16.7 16.7 30.0
3
12 40.0 40.0 70.0
4
6 20.0 20.0 90.0
5
3 10.0 10.0 100.0
Total
30 100.0 100.0
a majority portion of the participants,
religious customs and beliefs did not
impact their eating habits. This is basically
in terms of eating or not eating non-
vegetarian foods on some days
Majority of the respondents are undecided on
quality of the room-delivery service. This can
primarily arise from the equal quantum of the
good or bad services that they might have

8. ANALYSIS
Correlations
My mess bill is well
within my monthly
budget
The cancellation
policies are flexible
in mess
My mess bill is well
within my monthly
budget
Pearson
Correlation 1 .054
Sig. (2-tailed)
.776
N
30 30
The cancellation
policies are flexible
in mess
Pearson
Correlation .054 1
Sig. (2-tailed)
.776
N
30 30
About an interesting correlation
between cancellation policies and
the monthly mess bill, it was
found that the two variables are
inversely dependent on each
other with 77.6 percent
confidence interval.

9. EXPECTED OUTCOME
majorly that students prefer variety of food instead of routine like
menu served in the mess
Students are most likely to choose ala-carte as its both economical
and one gets to choose the food of his liking and taste
students prefer non vegetarian and vegetarian food items according
to their religious and social beliefs
X-Cafe provides room service to XUB students thus increasing its
popularity and sales
A 24 hour food joint is what students will mostly prefer, as they are
awake till late in the night

10. •schedules of the participants will take the
same time period and same set of
questions were asked in the survey
•The question statements were created on
the general perception about the food
available to students in campus
SCHEDULE
•The cost included procuring the
instruments used for data collection
comprise of the budget for this assignment.
BUDGET

11. THANK YOU