Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

Search results for: “31”

Refine Your Results

  • fact sheet

    Latinos in the 2012 Election: Louisiana

    This profile provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters[1. Eligible voters are defined as U.S. citizens ages 18 and older. Eligible voters are not the same as registered voters. To cast a vote, in all states except North Dakota, an eligible voter must first register to vote.] and other major groups of eligible voters in […]

  • report

    Section 3: Student Debt and the Household Ability to Pay

    Whether student debt is growing increasingly burdensome for household finances involves not only the size of the outstanding loan balances but also changes in the household’s other debts and its ability to pay those debts. This section evaluates mounting student debt in the context of two conventional measures of the household’s ability to pay: its […]

  • fact sheet

    Same-Sex Marriage in the Courts

    The U.S. Supreme Court stepped squarely into the same-sex marriage debate when it agreed on Dec. 7, 2012, to review two important lower court decisions involving gay marriage. Find out what that may mean for the future of same-sex marriage in the U.S.

  • report

    Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits

    More than eight in ten Americans ages 16-29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library. Many say they are reading more in the era of digital content, especially on their mobile phones and on computers.

  • report

    Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits

    More than eight in ten Americans ages 16-29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library. Many say they are reading more in the era of digital content, especially on their mobile phones and on computers.

  • report

    Appendix 5: Summary of Results

    Government Restrictions on Religion To assess the level of restrictions on religion by governments around the world, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life selected the following 20 questions for the Government Restrictions Index (GRI). The Pew Forum’s staff then combed through 19 published sources of information, including reports by the U.S. […]

  • report

    About the Surveys

    Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 7-9, 2012 among a national sample of 1,012 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (604 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 408 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 189 who had […]

  • report

    Chapter 4: Middle-Class Mobility

    A majority of middle-class adults say they have a better standard of living now than their parents had at the same stage of life, and a plurality say they expect their own children’s standard of living to eventually surpass their own. However, a somewhat smaller share holds these views now than in early 2008, when […]

  • report

    Public Continues to Hear Mixed Economic News

    Overview Public views of economic news—both overall and across most sectors—are little changed in recent months. Today, about half of Americans (53%) say they are hearing a mix of good and bad news about the economy, while 41% say they are hearing mostly bad news and just 3% say they are hearing mostly good news. […]