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.
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PEJ offers topline data for additional content-based reports. The focus of these opportunistic studies ranged from how the media uses Twitter to which candidate fared the best in the first five months of the presidential election.
The 2011 NCI data set totals 48,555 stories: 5,190 newspaper stories, 7,744 online stories, 11,858 stories from network television, 15,324 stories on cable news, and 8,439 stories from radio programs.
Our January 2011 tracking survey contains questions about people’s sources of online news information.
Our 2011 teens survey contains data about teens’ experiences online and perceptions of the online climate.
Our May 2011 tracking survey contains data on mobile phone ownership and usage, as well as profile management on social networking sites.
Important note for analysis of mobile activities: To analyze certain mobile activities questions (Q14a through Q14h; Q17a through Q17i; and Cell11a through Cell11c) based on all cell owners, use the “total” version in the data set (i.e. Q14atot instead of Q14a, Q17atot instead of Q17a, Cell11atot instead of Cell11a). The topline data and crosstabulation files have been recalculated based on all cell owners for these questions.
Our August 2011 tracking survey contains data on apps usage for tablets and cell phones, as well as adult data on the climate of social networking sites.
This survey contains questions on reading habits, library use and e-reader ownership.