Living Alone Verses Living with Roommates

My research focused on living situations. I wanted to compare the living situations of living alone versus living with one or more people, and find the advantages and disadvantages to both. I started by creating by survey with questions based on different aspects of everyday living that may differ from one living alone to one living with roommates. These questions gave me an idea of the stress level, study habits, sleep habits, number of times they go home, overall living preference, and self-declared level of sociability between these two types of living situations. I also asked the participants whether or not they have lived in that kind of situation before to see whether or not they are trying something new because their last living situation didn't work out too well. In addition to that, I also was able to categorize living situation by the gender of the participant, and the gender of their roommates (if applicable). There were a total of 13 participants - 5 of them in the "living alone" category, and 8 of them in the "living with one or more roommates" category. I organized my data into six two-way tables because I found it easier to understand the different variables I was testing amongst the living situations, whereas one two-way table would not be able to efficiently organize all of the variables I tested. For all of the tables, "Living Situation" is the independent, or explanatory variable, and "Stress Level," "Number of Hours Studied per Week," "Hours of Sleep per Night," "Number of Times Go Home per Semester," "Living Preference," and "Level of Sociability" were all the dependent, or response variables. By seeing the results for living alone and living with roommates side by side, it was easier to compare them and spot any major findings. Since I did have an uneven amount of participants in both categories, I also included percentages to better summarize the statistics. With that, the first question I asked was: "On a scale from 1-5, rate your