Methods

Members of Congress and technology leaders are rated lower in empathy, transparency and ethics; public gives higher scores to military leaders, public school principals and police officers

How many U.S. adults use the internet? There are a lot of sources with answers to this question. Yet these different sources can be tricky to reconcile.

Polling in different parts of the world can be very challenging, because what works in one country may not work in a different country.

The Center conducts polls in many countries other than the U.S. – but the methodology behind our international surveys can vary.

when designing an online survey questionnaire, there is more than one way to ask a respondent to select which options in a series applies to them.

Nick Bertoni, manager of the American Trends Panel, explains how the panel works and what its recent expansion means for our future survey work.

Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) is now the Center’s principal source of data for U.S. public opinion research.

Response rates to telephone public opinion polls conducted by Pew Research Center have resumed their decline, to 7% in 2017 and 6% in 2018.

What does the migration to online polling mean for the country's trove of public opinion data gathered over the past four decades?