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About a quarter of Americans used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About a quarter of Americans used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.
Members of the Baby Boom generation align more closely with younger generations than with older ones on most social issues.
Fully 80% of Baby Boomers say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
More than three-fourths of Americans saw the federal budget deficit as a threat to the recovering economy … in 1983. Then, as now, there was far less agreement about what to do about it.
Along with the U.S., three other nations surveyed have at least four-in-ten adults on social networks: Poland, Britain and South Korea.
Looking across 16 countries for which trends are available, the median percentage of people who own a cell phone has risen from 45% in 2002 to 81% in 2010.
Only about a quarter of young adults were married in 2008. This compared with about two-thirds in 1960.
In 2008, a 16-percentage-point gap separated marriage rates of college graduates (64%) and of those with a high school diploma or less (48%).