In 2014, FiveThirtyEight took a survey of about 1057 respondents to get a look at the (literal) sleeping habits of the American public beyond media portrayal. Some interesting notices: first, that about 45% of all couples sleep together with any sense of regularity, with only 13.8% of them sleeping together every day. Further, that the most common reason people don’t sleep together is snoring, followed by illness or different sleeping times. Finally, that respondents who are 60 and older are the most likely to sleep apart.

2014年， FiveThirtyEight對約1057名受訪者進行了一項調查 ，以了解媒體描述之外的美國公眾(一般)的睡眠習慣。 一些有趣的注意事項：首先，大約有45％的夫妻以任何規律的感覺睡在一起，其中每天只有13.8％的夫妻在一起睡。 此外，人們不在一起睡覺的最常見原因是打呼,，其次是疾病或不同的睡眠時間。 最后，年齡在60歲以上的受訪者最有可能分開睡覺。

The question then becomes — what other trends can we uncover in the data, and can we use these to make possible generalizations about married life? So let’s take a look: into the data, into the people who do sleep together, and finally, those who don’t.

問題就變成了：我們還可以在數據中發現哪些其他趨勢，我們可以利用這些趨勢對已婚生活進行概括嗎？ 因此，讓我們看一下：進入數據，進入一起睡覺的人們，最后進入不睡覺的人們。

數據調查 (Survey of the Data)

The data comes from FiveThirtyEight’s Github repository, and it was obtained through a SurveyMonkey survey from July 9th through July 10th in 2014 — and so does not account for any changes which may have occurred due to COVID-19.

數據來自FiveThirtyEight的Github存儲庫 ，該數據是通過2014年7月9日至7月10日的SurveyMonkey調查獲得的-因此未考慮由于COVID-19可能發生的任何更改。

Two points of potential bias exist. First, observing the education distribution:

存在兩點潛在偏差。 首先，觀察教育分布：

We see that the respondents are highly educated, and skewed towards being highly educated, disproportionately so. Second, observing our respondents’ income distribution:

我們看到，受訪者受過高等教育，并且偏向受過高等教育，但比例偏高。 其次，觀察受訪者的收入分布：

Is skewed towards a wealthier demographic.

偏向較富裕的人群。

Wealth and education are tied up with the issue of couples sleeping together — particularly, that wealthy couples can afford to sleep separately, in either a different room or a different bed. Thus, one may potentially speculate that the threshold for two people wanting to sleep in a separate bed is lower, for the respondents — snoring, for example, is a good enough reason for two people to sleep apart if you have a spare bedroom.

財富和教育與夫妻共同睡著的問題息息相關–特別是，富有的夫妻可以負擔得起分別睡在不同房間或不同床鋪上的問題。 因此，對于受訪者來說，可能會推測出兩個人想要在一張單獨的床上睡覺的門檻較低–例如，打you是兩個人分開睡的充分理由。

The skew towards higher education will likely work in a similar way to income: higher education has a positive correlation with income, has a positive correlation with people being busy (work reasons why people don’t sleep together).

高等教育的傾斜可能會以與收入類似的方式起作用：高等教育與收入呈正相關，與忙碌的人呈正相關(工作原因是人們不在一起睡覺)。

Regardless, results from this analysis should be kept with these two skews in mind.

無論如何，應牢記這兩個偏斜來進行分析得出的結果。

人們如何獨自入睡？ (How Do People Sleep Alone?)

From an overall perspective, the biggest reasons why people sleep alone are the following:

從總體上看，人們獨自睡覺的最大原因如下：

Where, as mentioned earlier, the most common reasons why people don’t sleep together are either due to snoring, or due to an illness.

如前所述，人們不在一起睡覺的最常見原因是打呼，或生病。

However, more interesting than the overall reasons for the respondents is the distribution of reasons across various axes — for instance, age, income, education, and length of relationship. After a quick look through of the various factors which can influence why respondents don’t sleep together, there’s two factors, age group and length of relationship, which show trends in the sleep reasoning of couples.

但是，與受訪者的整體原因相比，更有趣的是原因在各個軸上的分布-例如年齡，收入，教育程度和關系長度。 快速瀏覽了可能影響受訪者不睡覺的各種因素之后，有兩個因素，年齡組和親戚的長短，顯示了夫妻在睡眠推理方面的趨勢。

Regarding the age group of the respondents:

關于受訪者的年齡段：

A few interesting characteristics: first, that arguments are the biggest reasons for ages 18–29, unsurprising as the younger people are growing into their ability to emotionally self-regulate and amicably resolve disputes. Further, with ages 30–44 being the most common time people have children, it’s no surprise that children take up the largest slice for this demographic.

一些有趣的特征：首先，爭論是18-29歲年齡段的最大原因，當年輕人逐漸發展出能夠自我調節情緒并友好解決爭端的能力時，這一點就不足為奇了。 此外，由于30-44歲是人們生育孩子的最常見時間，因此，在這一人口統計數據中，孩子占據最大份額也就不足為奇了。

As the respondents get older, however, illness and snoring become more prominent reasons why couples don’t sleep together. This may have to do with wealth, and the thought that older people are more likely to be in living spaces where the lower threshold of snoring is enough to justify sleeping separately. Illness, of course, becomes a bigger problem with age. Work becomes less of a problem with age, as well, though this can speculatively be because of greater economic freedom with age/retirement, and the general trend of odd hour jobs (warehousing, night auditing) going to younger people in the labor market.

然而，隨著受訪者年齡的增長，疾病和打呼become成為夫妻不在一起睡覺的重要原因。 這可能與財富有關，并且認為老年人更有可能生活在打lower門檻較低的生活空間中，足以證明單獨睡覺是合理的。 當然，疾病隨著年齡的增長成為更大的問題。 工作也與年齡無關緊要，盡管可以推測這是由于年齡/退休年齡帶來的更大的經濟自由，以及零散工作的普遍趨勢(倉儲，夜間審計)流向勞動力市場中的年輕人。

The other factor that reveals trends is length of the relationship, separate from age:

揭示趨勢的另一個因素是關系的長度，與年齡無關：

The first thing to note is that this isn’t just a copy of the barchart before: thus, the respondents had a variety of relationship lengths, not all of them marrying young, and some of them products of remarriage.

首先要注意的是，這不僅是以前的圖表的復制品：因此，受訪者的戀愛時間長短不一，并非所有人都年輕，還有一些是再婚的產物。

Beyond that, it seems as though arguments are a problem within the first 10 years of the relationship, later on, as couples age and learn how to work with each other (or don’t, and get divorced), arguments are less of an issue. Snoring becomes a greater issue at the later lengths of the relationship, likely a correlation with age or wealth or education level, but also the general trend that sleep apnea and snoring issues are a bigger problem for older individuals.

除此之外，似乎爭論在關系的前十年內是一個問題，后來，隨著夫妻變老并學習如何彼此合作(或不離婚)，爭論就少了。問題。 在關系的后期，打nor成為一個更大的問題，可能與年齡，財富或受教育程度相關，但總的趨勢是睡眠呼吸暫停和打issues問題是老年人的更大問題。

Ultimately, breaking down the reasons why people don’t sleep together by age and length of a relationship gives us a more nuanced perspective: arguments are primarily a bigger reason for younger couples with newer relationships, snoring is an issue for older couples with longer relationships. Factors like a lack of a sex life, not enough space, and bathroom issues never become the major reason why couples don’t sleep in the same bed.

歸根結底，按年齡和戀愛關系的長短細分人們不在一起睡覺的原因，使我們有了更細致入微的觀點：爭論主要是年輕夫婦擁有較新關系的更大原因，打nor是具有較長關系的老年夫婦的一個問題。 缺乏性生活，空間不足和洗手間問題等因素從未成為夫妻不在同一張床上睡覺的主要原因。

Now, moving onto the group of respondents who do sleep in the same bed, at least occasionally:

現在，至少進入偶爾在同一張床上睡覺的受訪者群體：

人們如何一起睡覺？ (How Do People Sleep Together?)

This subsection of the data which did actually sleep together with some frequency can also be analyzed with greater detail by breaking down people into subsections by factors like education, age, wealth, etc. The two factors which produced the most interesting trends are education, and length of relationship.

還可以通過按教育程度，年齡，財富等因素將人們劃分為多個子部分，來更詳細地分析實際上確實以某種頻率Hibernate的數據的這一子部分。產生最有趣趨勢的兩個因素是教育和關系的長度。

Regarding the breakdown of the frequency in which couples sleep together and education:

關于夫妻在一起睡覺和受教育的頻率的細分：

We see that it appears that the more educated the respondents are, the more likely they don’t sleep together every night. The portion of moderately frequent sleeping together schedules (ranging from a few times per week to once a month or less) also increases as education goes on, suggesting a bit of a spread.

我們發現，受訪者受教育的程度越高，他們每晚不在一起睡覺的可能性就越大。 隨著教育的進行，適度頻繁地一起睡覺的時間表(從每周幾次到每月一次或更少一次)的比例也隨著增加而增加，這表明傳播有所增加。

Regarding the other factor: length of relationship.

關于其他因素：關系的長度。

It seems as though a polarization occurs, as time goes on. As couples’ relationships lengthen, it seems as though couples either are significantly more likely to sleep in the same bed, or more likely to not. On a line of similar observation, the more moderate frequencies of people sleeping together diminish over the length of the relationship.

隨著時間的流逝，似乎似乎發生了極化。 隨著夫妻關系的延長，夫妻似乎要么更有可能在同一張床上睡覺，要么更有可能不在同一張床上睡覺。 根據類似的觀察，在關系的長度上，較適度的人在一起睡覺的頻率會減少。

結論 (Conclusions)

So, with a second look at our data, here’s what we figured out:

因此，再來看一下我們的數據，這就是我們發現的結果：

Looking at those who don’t sleep together: age of the respondent, and length of their relationship were important factors in determining the underlying trends in reasoning. They showed that younger and newer couples struggled the most with arguments, but older couples dealt more with the problems of illness and snoring.

觀察那些不在一起睡覺的人：受訪者的年齡和他們之間的關系長短是確定推理潛在趨勢的重要因素。 他們表明，年輕和較新的夫婦在爭執中掙扎最多，而年長的夫婦在疾病和打呼problems問題上的處理更多。

A more general trend to consider is the effect of wealth and general capacity for a couple to sleep separately onto a couple’s threshold for sleeping separately. Essentially, if a couple has a spare room, or they have the money to get another bed, one can hypothesize that they’d be willing to sleep separately for more mundane reasons, like snoring, rather than arguments.

要考慮的更普遍的趨勢是，財富和夫妻共同睡眠的一般能力對夫妻分開睡眠的門檻的影響。 本質上，如果一對夫婦有一個空房間，或者他們有錢去買另一張床，則可以假設他們愿意出于更平凡的原因而單獨睡覺，例如打呼,，而不是吵架。

Another detail to notice is about the relationship between age and length of relationships: it’s indicative, by the fact that the two don’t mirror each other, that they’re no longer easily coupled. Merely, that the respondents who had young relationships are not necessarily assumed to be young people. The fact that our data comes from a more educated pool of people (and thus, become people somewhat likely to push back dating and romance) can further support the decoupling.

需要注意的另一個細節是年齡和關系長度之間的關系：這是事實，因為兩者并不相互反映，因此不再容易耦合。 只是，有年輕關系的受訪者不一定是年輕人。 我們的數據來自受過良好教育的人群(因此成為可能會推遲約會和浪漫的人)，這一事實可以進一步支持這種脫鉤。

Regarding couples who do sleep together with some frequency, there seems to be a negative correlation between education level and sleeping together, as well as a polarization of sleep frequency as the length of the relationship increases.

對于確實有一定頻率睡覺的夫妻來說，受教育程度和在一起睡覺之間似乎存在負相關關系，并且隨著關系長度的增加，睡眠頻率也呈兩極分化。

Ultimately, as relationships mature and sleeping alone becomes more affordable, it appears as though couples make the choice to sleep separately for their own reasons, usually relatively mundane ones, like snoring.

最終，隨著人際關系的成熟和單身睡眠變得更加負擔得起，夫妻似乎是出于自己的原因而選擇單獨睡覺，通常是相對平凡的睡眠，例如打呼nor。

Check out the R code using this github link. Data is by FiveThirtyEight, graphics are by myself.

使用此github鏈接簽出R代碼。 數據由FiveThirtyEight提供，圖形由我自己提供。