It has been about a week since I sent out my survey to the upperclassmen here at Pomperaug. And I received more responses than I thought I would! My survey had 100 respondents that answered personal questions about their own lives relating to hardships. After seeing these results, I have found amazing, as well as some flawed data.
The picture above shows the first two questions I asked in my survey, and the results are pretty cool. About 1/4 of the junior and senior population have experienced divorce or some sort of separation. The second question is where I found a flaw. When creating the survey I failed to realize that children of divorce can also still live with both parents -- making the "mom and dad" option the most popular for children of divorce, as well as children of whole families. This will complicate my data analysis, however, I will work around this problem by looking at individual responses or generalizing this data.
The data to the left has me most hopeful for the success of my project. 67% of respondents say that they maybe or are interested in my book series addressing hardships. Shockingly, most of the yes respondents were people who had not dealt with things like divorce and an illness in a parent -- rather, they were interested in learning about people who have experienced it, and what growing up with hardships is like. This opens up a whole new audience for my book.