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short readsDec 17, 2014

America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is widest on record

The gap between America’s upper-income and middle-income families has reached its highest level on record. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500).
datasetOct 9, 2014

2014 National Survey of Latinos

Field dates: 09/11/14 – 10/09/14
Respondents: Nationally representative sample of 1,520 Latinos ages 18 and older.
Margin of Error: +/- 3.2 percentage points at the 95% confidence interval.

This survey focused on politics, the 2014 election, immigration, job satisfaction and identity.
reportNov 12, 2014

Americans’ Perceptions of Privacy are Varied

The term “privacy” evokes a constellation of concepts in the minds of the American public To better understand how the public thinks about privacy, a representative sample of 607 adults were asked an open-ended question in an online survey: “When you hear the word “privacy,” what comes to mind for you?”[6. numoffset=”7″ A full discussion […]
reportJan 29, 2015

Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society

Despite broadly similar views about the overall place of science in America, there are striking differences between the public and scientists’ views on a host of science-related issues.
reportJan 29, 2015

Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society

Despite broadly similar views about the overall place of science in America, there are striking differences between the public and scientists’ views on a host of science-related issues.
short readsSep 8, 2014

Who makes minimum wage?

Perhaps surprisingly, not very many people earn minimum wage, and they make up a smaller share of the workforce than they used to.
short readsJul 25, 2014

Chart of the Week: The Great Baby Recession

States that were hit the hardest by the Great Recession experienced the biggest birthrate declines.
short readsApr 28, 2014

Americans agree inequality has grown, but don’t agree on why

Two-thirds of Americans say the gap between the rich and everyone else has increased, but when asked why they cite dozens of different reasons.
reportAug 26, 2014

Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media friends disagreed with them were less likely to discuss the issues in person and online.
reportFeb 20, 2014

Appendix: How to analyze social media networks

See related document at: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2014/02/How-we-analyzed-Twitter-social-media-networks.pdf Resources and references Adamic, Lada A, and Natalie Glance. “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: divided they blog.” Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery 21 Aug. 2005: 36-43. Early work documenting polarization in social media through an analysis of networks of blog connections. Andrei Broder, Ravi […]