Dinner data notes
Family dinner context
Dinner Data
Dinner data for sports families: what the surveys say about practice schedules, takeout spending, and family meals, with the source and the sample size attached to every number.
A number is only useful if you can do something with it
Takeout spending is worth reading because it points at a sixty-cent burrito you could have made instead. A figure about what families are supposed to do is worth nothing at all.
Every number here says who counted, in what year, and how many households answered. When a source is thin, it says that out loud instead of rounding it into confidence.
Use The Context
Connect the pattern back to dinner
Dinner data notes
The Cost of Sports-Night Takeout
context that helps families explain one sports-night dinner problemDinner data notes
How Sports Schedules Change Family Dinner
context that helps families explain one sports-night dinner problemDinner data notes
Practice-Night Dinner Survey Context
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Practice-Night Dinner Problems
context that helps families explain one sports-night dinner problemTurn data into a plan
Use the pattern to change one night
Where the number came from
Each figure carries a source, a year, and how many households were counted.
Cost, then a cheaper plate
Money spent on Thursday takeout only matters next to the meal that replaces it.
Read it without guilt
The average family does not exist, and yours was never in that sample anyway.
The night that repeats
Sorted by weeknight and by sport, so you can see the one dinner worth fixing first.
What a survey cannot tell you
No study knows whether your kid ate the sandwich you packed on Tuesday.