Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

United States

Icon for promotion number 1

Sign up for our politics newsletter

Our latest politics data every month

Thank you for subscribing!

Refine Your Results

  • report

    Democrats Debate in Iowa

    Sunday morning all eight Democratic candidates for president met at Drake University in Iowa. How did their views on issues ranging from Iraq to money in politics match up with public opinion data?

  • report

    States Let Adult Kids Stay on Parents’ Insurance

    Legislatures in eight states voted this spring to require insurers to let adult children stay on their parents’ health insurance, even after the traditional cut-off dates on a child’s 18th birthday or college graduation.

  • report

    Two Decades of American News Preferences

    Despite dramatic structural changes in the news media since the 1980s, the interests of news audiences have changed very little over the past several decades. Disaster News and Money News have been at the top of the charts throughout, while Tabloid News and Foreign News have been at the bottom. In this first of two reports, Pew Research Center consultant Michael Robinson analyzes data from 165 surveys on audience preferences taken by the PRC (and predecessor organizations) since 1986.

  • report

    Presidential Campaign Isn’t Making a Good First Impression

    The 2008 presidential campaign already seems to be wearing out its welcome with many Americans. A 52% majority of the public offers a negative assessment of the early-blooming campaign and just one-in-five has a kind thing to say.

  • short reads

    Say Premarital Sex is Wrong

    That’s the number of adult Americans who now say that sexual relations between a man and woman before marriage is always or almost always wrong.

  • short reads

    Muslim American Democrats

    That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who are Democrats (37%) or say they lean toward the Democratic Party (26%).

  • report

    Democrats Address Gay Community

    On Thursday night six Democratic presidential candidates came together for a debate on issues important to the gay community. Candidates took on issues from gay marriage to “don’t ask don’t tell” and addressed a party whose rank-and-file hold ambivalent positions on some issues of concern to gays.

REFINE YOUR SELECTION