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short readsJun 11, 2012

Most in Spain Blame Country’s Banks for Current Economic Problems

More than three-quarters (78%) of Spaniards blame their country’s banks and financial institutions for current economic problems, compared to 59% who say it is their government’s fault.
reportJun 10, 2012

Japan Wins Scientists’ Panel Nod to Restart Atomic Reactors
reportJun 8, 2012

Unpacking self-tracking

Pew Internet asked two questions about “self-tracking” in 2010 – how should we expand this area of our research?
reportJun 7, 2012

Americans’ Religious Values

The gap in religious values between Republicans and Democrats has widened over the past 25 years, according to the Pew Research Center’s American Values Survey.
short readsJun 7, 2012

Small Percentage of Catholics Say Contraceptive Use Morally Wrong

Few U.S. Catholics regard the use of contraceptives as morally wrong, even though the use of contraception is forbidden by church doctrine.
short readsJun 7, 2012

Wide Gap Between Republicans, Democrats in Views of Government Effectiveness

About three-quarters of Republicans (77%) agree that when something is run by the government it is usually inefficient and wasteful. Just 41% of Democrats agree, a difference of 36 percentage points.
reportJun 7, 2012

Smartphone Speculation Soars on Social Media

Bloggers and Twitter users love guessing about new high-tech devices and last week, they were busy discussing what the new iPhone would look like and whether Facebook would jump into the smartphone business. On YouTube, many users saw video of a gruesome crime.
reportJun 7, 2012

Candidate Preference by Religious Group, June Update

Polling conducted in May and early June by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that Mitt Romney continues to hold a commanding lead over Barack Obama among white evangelical voters. But Obama leads Romney by large margins among black Protestants and religiously unaffiliated voters.
presentationJun 7, 2012

Libraries 2020: Imagining the library of the (not too distant) future

Associate Director Kristen Purcell shares Pew Internet’s latest data on mobile, social networking, and e-reading in her keynote address for the 2012 State University of New York Librarians Association Annual Conference in New York City.
reportJun 6, 2012

Interest in Foreign News Declines

Overview Public interest in foreign news stories has been modest so far this year, in stark contrast to 2011 when several overseas news stories, from the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster to the “Arab spring,” attracted substantial attention. The latest weekly News Interest Index, conducted May 31 to June 2 among 1,012 adults, is fairly […]