Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
To test whether machine transcription would be practical for studies of sermons in 2019 and 2020, we compared human and machine transcriptions of snippets from a random sample of 200 audio and video sermons.
On average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
This project represents our first comprehensive examination of Asian American identity using focus groups. Here’s how and why we did it.
Black Southerners diverge from other Black Americans – especially Northeasterners and Westerners – in other ways when it comes to religion.
Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa tend to be more religious than U.S.-born Black adults or immigrants from the Caribbean.
Here are some of the key measures of the housing affordability crunch in the United States and the reasons behind it.
About half of Black Americans (51%) say they are very or extremely informed about the history of Black people in the U.S.
Voters in more than 60 countries went to the polls in what turned out to be a difficult year for incumbents and traditional political parties.
Majorities in most of the 27 places around the world surveyed in 2023 and 2024 say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
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