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title: "Methodology"
description: "About Pew Research Center’s Summer 2020 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Abt Associates. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs are available here."
date: "2020-07-30"
authors:
  - name: "Laura Silver"
    job_title: "Associate Director, Global Attitudes Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/laura-silver/"
  - name: "Kat Devlin"
    job_title: "Former Research Associate"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/kat-devlin/"
  - name: "Christine Huang"
    job_title: "Former Research Associate"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/christine-huang/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/07/30/us-views-china-2020-covid-methodology/"
---

# Methodology

### About Pew Research Center’s Summer 2020 Global Attitudes Survey

Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Abt Associates. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs are available [here](http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/international-survey-research/).