College grads in U.S. tend to partner with each other – especially if their parents also graduated from college
In 2019, 81% of household heads with a bachelor’s degree or more education had a spouse or partner who was also a college graduate.
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Identifying partisan ‘leaners’ in cross-national surveys
In 2022, we experimented with a new question in cross-national surveys to capture the international equivalent of U.S. partisan “leaners.”
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1. A sampling of overarching views on digital change
The following incisive and informative responses to our questions about the positive and negative impacts of digital change by 2035 represent some of the big ideas shared by several of the hundreds of thought leaders who participated in this canvassing. Working to meet the challenges raised by digital technologies will inspire humanity to grow and […]
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1. Measuring spirituality
How does one go about counting the number of spiritual people in the United States? And how do Americans define spirituality? In preparation for this survey, we reviewed the academic literature on spirituality and consulted with scholars who have published on the topic. It quickly became clear that there is no single, widely accepted definition […]
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2. Global migration change, 1990-2020
Migration outpaced global population growth by 83% to 47% from 1990-2020. Buddhist and Muslim migrants more than doubled in number during this time.
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3. Black representation in newsrooms
Black Americans see an important role for Black people in the newsgathering process as one possible way to improve coverage of race and Black communities. But they largely do not feel that their news broadly needs to come from Black journalists, nor do they see reporters’ race as a dominant factor in whether news is […]
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What we learned from creating a custom graphics package in R using ggplot2
Building informative and digestible data visualizations is a foundational aspect of Pew Research Center’s work.
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Large shares in many countries are pessimistic about the next generation’s financial future
A median of 70% of adults across 19 countries say children in their country will be worse off than their parents financially when they grow up.
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This report aims to gain an understanding of social media influencers who focus on health and wellness topics and the experience of U.S. adults who get such information from these influencers. It uses two different methodologies, including an analysis of health and wellness influencers who regularly post on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, as well as […]
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Appendix: Does mentioning religious leaders’ support for environmental protection influence respondents’ answers to survey questions about it?
Pew Research Center conducted an experiment to better understand how religious leaders’ messages might influence their followers’ views on the environment. Using a sample of more than 3,000 U.S. adults that was separate from the main survey, the experiment posed two questions. A third of the respondents were shown the following: As you may know, […]