About eight-in-ten blacks said in a 2009 poll that more changes were needed in the country to give them equal rights with whites.

The number of adults who say they frequently encounter people using cell phones in a loud and annoying manner has dropped 11 percentage points since 2006.

Negative views of the Supreme Court increased after last June’s health care ruling and at 36% were largely unchanged in December.

In December, more than six-in-ten Americans continued to say the U.S. does not have a responsibility to do something about fighting in Syria.

In 2012, about three-in-ten Americans 25 and older had completed at least a bachelor’s degree.

The overall U.S. birth rate declined 8% from 2007 to 2010 with the greatest drop among immigrant women.

The share of new marriages between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from each other increased to 15.1% in 2010.