Survey Data on Loneliness and Smoking Among Extended-Stay Hotel Residents in Atlanta

Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, is the geographic scope for this pilot study of 77 adults aged 23–72 residing in extended-stay hotels. The dataset contains survey results, including demographic information, loneliness scale scores, and smoking status, used to investigate relationships between smoking and loneliness. Author Naomi Adjei published the data under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Conducting regression analysis on the relationship between smoking status and loneliness based on survey scale scores.
• Investigating gender differences in social loneliness and smoking behavior among a specific housing-insecure population.
• Piloting survey instruments for larger longitudinal studies on environmental health risks in non-traditional housing.

Strengths

• Includes specific regression results (B=1.10, p=0.037) indicating a gender-specific relationship between smoking and loneliness.
• Survey data contains multiple validated instruments: the De Jong Gierveld loneliness scale and a smoking status questionnaire.
• Dataset is openly available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 77-person sample size is small, and the authors note the need for larger longitudinal samples to establish causality.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Survey data collected from a pilot study of extended-stay hotel residents.

Time Range

The study period is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:53:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, United States.