William Wilson

ENGL 2116
WTE 4
2/3/15

How often do Students Eat Out per Week?

Introduction:
The purpose of this small study is to establish an average of how many restaurant visits students make
each week. For the purposes of this research, the term restaurant includes all places that serve food; i.e.
sit-down, takeout, and fast food establishments, etc.

Procedure:
The data will be collected by asking students from the ENGL 2116-090 class directly and recording their
candid responses. A total of 20 students will be asked to provide an average of how often they eat at
restaurants per week.

Results:
Due to the small sample set used in this study, the results were analyzed in groups of 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 89, and 10+ restaurant visits per week. After analyzing the collected data, it was found that most students,
(80%) in ENGL 2116 eat out between 0 and 5 times per week.
Key Findings

Students averaged 3.95 restaurant visits per week with a standard deviation of 3.67 visits per
week
Maximum of 15 restaurant visits per week.
Maximum of 0 restaurant visits per week.
90% of the sample set claimed to only eat out 1 time per day (7 per week) or less
Students were most likely to eat out 0-1 times per week (30% of sample set)
Zero students claimed to eat out 8-9 times per week
Two students (10% of sample set) claimed 10 or more restaurant visits per week.

See Graph 1 for a visual of the collected data.

The resulting trend seems to suggest that most student prefer to eat out less often for reasons beyond the
scope of this study.

Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4

Number of Times Eating Out per Week

1
1
2
11

William Wilson
ENGL 2116
WTE 4
2/3/15
Student 5
Student 6
Student 7
Student 8
Student 9
Student 10
Student 11
Student 12
Student 13
Student 14
Student 15
Student 16
Student 17
Student 18
Student 19
Student 20
Table 1: Collected Data

Number of Times Eating Out per Week

0-1
2-3
4-5
6-7
8-9
10 +
Table 2: Consolidated Data

0
1
4
5
7
15
2
2
5
7
5
1
2
1
3
4

Occurrences
6
5
5
2
0
2

Percentag
e
30%
25%
25%
10%
0%
10%

William Wilson
ENGL 2116
WTE 4
2/3/15

Number of Restuarant Visits by Students per Week

7
6
5
4

Number or Students

3
2
1
0

0-1

2-3

4-5

6-7

Restuarant Visits per Week

Graph 1: Visual representation (bar graph) of collected data

8-9

10 +