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    2. Three-quarters of adults have done a personal learning activity in the past year

    To characterize the landscape of personal learning among adult Americans, the October-November 2015 survey presented respondents a list of possible learning activities they might pursue. For personal learning, most adults turn to how-to magazines, consumer magazines or other publications to learn something on a topic of personal interest – and this outpaces signing up for […]

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    Republican views of Chris Christie as president

    BASED ON REPUBLICAN AND REPUBLICAN-LEANING REGISTERED VOTERS If Chris Christie were to become president do you think he would be a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president? NET Great/Good % Great % Good % Average % NET Poor/Terrible % Poor % Terrible % (VOL.) Never heard of/DK/Ref % Unweighted N All Rep/Rep Lean RV […]

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    Republican views of John Kasich as president

    BASED ON REPUBLICAN AND REPUBLICAN-LEANING REGISTERED VOTERS If John Kasich were to become president do you think he would be a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president? NET Great/Good % Great % Good % Average % NET Poor/Terrible % Poor % Terrible % (VOL.) Never heard of/DK/Ref % Unweighted N All Rep/Rep Lean RV 17 […]

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    American trade issues aren’t just about China

    Americans have good reason to worry about competition from China, the country with which the U.S. has its largest merchandise trade deficit. But competition from high-value exporters such as Germany also poses a challenge that, so far, has been largely ignored on the campaign trail.

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    African American News Media: Fact Sheet

    Last updated June 2016 Black-oriented news media – one of the long-standing minority news genres in the U.S. – showed little substantive change over the 2014 to 2015 period. The overall number of newspapers aimed at this population – primarily community weeklies – remained steady, but there was some evidence of audience decline, a pattern […]

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    Democrats’ views of Bernie Sanders as president

    BASED ON DEMOCRATIC AND DEMOCRATIC-LEANING REGISTERED VOTERS If Bernie Sanders were to become president do you think he would be a great, good, average, poor, or terrible president? NET Great/Good % Great % Good % Average % NET Poor/Terrible % Poor % Terrible % (VOL.) Never heard of/DK/Ref % Unweighted N All Dem/Dem Lean RV 51 […]

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    2. Accuracy in estimating multivariate relationships

    In addition to point estimates (e.g., % approving of President Barack Obama’s job performance), public opinion polls are often used to determine what factors explain a given attitude or behavior. For example, is education level or gender more predictive of Obama approval? This type of analysis involves testing the effects of multiple variables simultaneously. One […]

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    Libraries and Learning

    Most Americans think that local libraries serve the educational needs of their communities and families well. But many do not know about key education services libraries provide.