More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion — or no religion at all.

One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).

More than a third of online adults (36%) have used a search engine to find information about famous or notable people.

Eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say they consider not reporting all income on one’s tax returns to be morally wrong, while just 5% consider it morally acceptable and 14% say it’s not a moral issue.

Nearly nine out of 10 Americans (86%) are “tired of having a country;” frequently cited reasons include a lack of significant results from the democratic process (36%) dissatisfaction with customer service (28%), and exhaustion (22%), as reported by The Onion.

Shortly before the count of U.S. military fatalities reached 4,000, a Pew survey found that only 28% of U.S. adults were able to correctly specify the approximate number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war, far fewer than the number able to estimate troop deaths correctly in earlier surveys.

Fewer than one-in-five Americans (17%) now rate the US economy as performing well — a sharp decline from the already low number (26%) who viewed the economy as in good or excellent state in the first month of 2008

Only about a third (32%) of Buddhists in the United States are Asian; a majority (53%) are white, and most are converts to Buddhism.