Participation Statistics

This section of the NFHS website contains information on participation in high school events.

This report is conducted using secondary statistics and secondary research collected through focus group and university participant surveys. The statistics are from New York City Beverage Marketing, a leading research firm dedicated to the world's beverage industry. Statistics on past growth patterns and growth forecasts will be discussed in the results. Focus groups and surveys are completed by the Journal of Nutrition, focusing on college student energy drink consumption patterns.

The results and analysis of this study focus on descriptive statistics and inference statistics. For descriptive statistics, participant body images and statistical results of self-esteem are indicated as minimum and maximum scores, mean and standard deviation. Statistical results of two independent variables (body image and gender) and dependent variable (self esteem) are calculated using inference statistics using related statistical methods such as t-test and Pearson <ref> {{cite web | last = Essays | first = UK | url = https://www.ukessays.com/essays/psychology/the-influence-of-body-image-and-self-esteem-psychology-essay.php?vref = 1 | title = Impact of body image and self-esteem psychology paper | Publisher = UKEssays.com | Date = November 2013 | Access date = 11th November 2018 | Location = Nottingham, UK}} </ ref>