Assessing the effects of generation using age-period-cohort analysis
In this piece, we demonstrate how to conduct age-period-cohort analysis, a statistical tool, to determine the effects of generation.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
In this piece, we demonstrate how to conduct age-period-cohort analysis, a statistical tool, to determine the effects of generation.
26% of adults say having more political parties would make it easier to solve problems, while nearly as many (24%) say it would not.
The median age of voting House lawmakers is 57.9 years, while the new Senate’s median age is 65.3 years.
When asked about the ideal age of a president, around half of Americans (49%) say they prefer someone in their 50s.
Among employed U.S. adults who are ages 25 to 64 and married, husbands spend about 28 hours per week on leisure. Wives spend about 26 hours on it.
A majority of Americans say medication abortion should be legal, but there is a stark divide by age, religion and party affiliation.
As part of our survey aimed at understanding how Americans are thinking about and experiencing aging, we asked U.S. adults some questions to learn: The survey of 8,750 U.S. adults was conducted Sept. 2-8, 2025. Read key findings from the full study. Who has done estate planning About three-in-ten U.S. adults say they have created: […]
To better understand the coming out experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender adults, we asked them: Half or more in each group say they knew they were gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans before age 14. Far fewer say they first told someone by that age. Small shares ranging from 1% to 4% across these […]
These declines in the number of children adults plan to have occurred almost entirely in the last decade.
Explore trends in partisan identification among U.S. adults using data from Pew Research Center’s National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS).
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