Time For Beddy-Bye

Recent "statistics" show that increasingly American married couples are opting for separate bedrooms, and not necessarily because the intimacy has gone from the relationship. A variety of reasons are given, with excessive snoring high on the list. I'd like to know who does this research, and why. Do canvassers stop shoppers at K-Mart and ask, "excuse me, do you and your mate each have your own bedroom, if so why, and if not, would you prefer to?" Do they call on the phone right as you're about to eat and say, "I'll only take up about fifteen minutes of your time while you tell me about the sleeping arrangements of you and your spouse?" I have a theory that the life style of every class level is a parody of the level immediately above it, with the same trappings only cheaper. The dining room is reserved exclusively for sit-down dinners, which most families do only on the rare occasion there are guests. The rest of the time whoever is home around mealtime grabs something to eat at the kitchen table, but the whole point of the dining room is that people with serious money have them, only with pantries to separate them from the kitchen. Royalty and wildly rich folks have always had separate bedrooms, but the custom has only recently filtered down to the struggling classes, which sometimes have to close in the back porch so the husband will have someplace to sleep.