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09-29-2006, 04:34 PM
Atlanta has been the named the worst city for sleeping, according to a pharmaceutical company-funded report.
The Big Peach was the pits in a ranking based on survey data and on factors that deprived people of sleep like commute times, divorce and unemployment rates.
Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce and unemployment rates were slightly above average as well.
Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis followed Atlanta at the top of the list of worst places to snooze.
The best cities for sleep were in California — Anaheim and Los Angeles were No. 1 and No. 2. Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Minneapolis and Chicago rounded out the best list.
It was mildly surprising to see traffic-clogged Los Angeles near the top of the list of best places to sleep, said Bert Sperling, the Oregon-based researcher who put together the report.
"We don't know exactly why" some cities ranked where they did, he said.
Sperling has compiled lists of "best places" to work, live and play for Money and Newsweek magazines and other publications. For this report, he drew information from a national telephone survey done by the federal government and from a demographic research firm and from government statistics.
Sanofi-Aventis, a drug company that makes a sleeping pill, funded this latest report.
The Big Peach was the pits in a ranking based on survey data and on factors that deprived people of sleep like commute times, divorce and unemployment rates.
Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce and unemployment rates were slightly above average as well.
Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis followed Atlanta at the top of the list of worst places to snooze.
The best cities for sleep were in California — Anaheim and Los Angeles were No. 1 and No. 2. Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Minneapolis and Chicago rounded out the best list.
It was mildly surprising to see traffic-clogged Los Angeles near the top of the list of best places to sleep, said Bert Sperling, the Oregon-based researcher who put together the report.
"We don't know exactly why" some cities ranked where they did, he said.
Sperling has compiled lists of "best places" to work, live and play for Money and Newsweek magazines and other publications. For this report, he drew information from a national telephone survey done by the federal government and from a demographic research firm and from government statistics.
Sanofi-Aventis, a drug company that makes a sleeping pill, funded this latest report.