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    The Future of Money in a Mobile Age

    In a Pew Internet/Elon University survey, internet experts predict that payment with mobile devices will be commonplace by 2020, although a number of potential hurdles and holdouts stand in the way

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    Table: Christian Population as Percentages of All Christians by Country

    View as: Numbers | Percent of All Christians | Percent of Total Population Country Percentage of 2010 Christian Population that is Catholic Percentage of 2010 Christian Population that is Protestant Percentage of 2010 Christian Population that is Orthodox Percentage of 2010 Christian Population that is Other Christian Percentage of 2010 Christian Population that is Christian […]

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    In 2007, Mood Just Beginning to Sour, Democrats Better Regarded

    Four years ago, as voters were about to cast the first ballots in the 2008 election, the public’s mood was not very good, but still a lot better than it is today. In late 2007, the economic recession was gaining strength and the public’s view of the economy had grown more negative. Only about a […]

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    Chapter 2: Young Adults in the U.S. Labor Market

    The U.S. labor market is still struggling to recover from the effects of the Great Recession. The recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009,[10. numoffset=”10″ Business cycle dates are determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html.] but the national unemployment rate continued to rise, peaking at 9.6% annually in 2010. […]

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    Restaurants, Bars and Clubs

    We asked separately about restaurants, bars, and clubs versus other local businesses because we thought entertainment establishments such eateries and bars were a distinct category of local business that might draw a different audience and might show different patterns of information seeking. That proved to be the case. The 55% of all adults who get […]

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    Chapter 3: Intermarried Couples of Different Cohorts

    To see whether the differences between newlywed intermarried couples and those who married in hold true among couples who are not newlyweds, this chapter looks at all currently married couples between 2008 and 2010, dividing them into four groups based on the time period in which the couples got married. The four cohorts of currently-married […]

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    Who are the Boomerang Kids?

    This generation of young adults has sometimes been labeled the “boomerang generation” for its proclivity to move out of the family home for a time and then boomerang right back. The Great Recession seems to have accelerated this tendency. The Pew Research survey found that among all adults ages 18 to 34, 24% moved back […]

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    The Press and the Public

    Where They Diverged and Where they Met In a year defined by a number of major news events, the mainstream media and the U.S. public often agreed on the most important stories. According to data from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, three of five stories that generated the most public […]

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    Obama: Weak Job Ratings, But Positive Personal Image

    Overview Barack Obama begins his fourth year in office facing a struggling economy, an unhappy public, and a lower job approval rating than most of his recent predecessors at a comparable point in their presidencies. In fact, Obama’s job rating today is a bit more negative than it was in December: 48% disapprove of his […]