2012 News Coverage Index
The January to May 2012 NCI data set totals 20,447 stories: 1,977 newspaper stories, 3,242 online stories, 5,186 stories from network television, 6,472 stories on cable news, and 3,570 stories from radio programs.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Read our research on:
Datasets
Pew Research Center makes the case-level microdata for much of its research available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. These datasets are listed below by collection date. A listing of our American Trends Panel datasets and religion datasets are also available. See this post for more information on how to use our datasets and contact us at info@pewresearch.org with any questions.
To download datasets, please log in or create a free account.
-
-
2012 Additional Content Studies
The Project offers topline data for additional content-based reports. Topics of these opportunistic studies ranged from digital advertising and news to how the media covered the 2012 campaign.
-
Jan. 5-8, 2012 – Mobile Commerce
This dataset contains questions about mobile commerce.
-
Jan. 20-Feb. 19, 2012 – Search, Social Networks and Politics
Our February 2012 tracking survey contains data on search engine usage, and political interactions on social networking sites.
-
March 15-April 3, 2012 – Cell Phones
Our April 2012 tracking survey contains data on cell phone ownership, usage and attitudes.
-
July 16-Aug. 7, 2012 – Civic Engagement
This data set contains questions about people’s civic behaviors and attitudes. It was used in the report “Civic Engagement in the Digital Age”.
-
Aug. 2-5, 2012 – Pictorial Activities
This omnibus survey contains questions about social networking site use and online pictorial activities.
-
Aug. 7-Sept. 6, 2012 – Health
Our September 2012 Health Tracking survey contains questions used in the reports “Mobile Health 2012,” “Health Online 2013,” “Tracking for Health,” “Family Caregivers are Wired for Health”, and “The Diagnosis Difference”.
-
Sept. 20-23, 2012 – Mobile Politics
This omnibus survey contains questions about how voters used their cell phones during the 2012 election campaign.
-
Sept. 20-23 and Sept. 23-27, 2012 – Political Donations
This omnibus survey contains questions about how people contributed money to the presidential campaigns during the 2012 election season.