Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

Search results for: “asian americans”

Refine Your Results

  • short reads

    Share of births to unmarried women dips, reversing a long trend

    In 2014, 40% of births were to unmarried mothers, a slight decline from the 41% share that had held steady since 2008. Although the single percentage point drop in 2014 was small, it was only the third one-year dip in this measure since the end of World War II.

  • report

    Appendix B: Explanation of Ancestry Analysis

    We use information on respondent ancestry reported in the 1980-2000 decennial censuses and the 2010-2012 American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the proportion of the population with two significantly different racial ancestries. The ancestry question is an open-ended question that allows respondents to report up to two ancestries. The three-year 2010-2012 ACS was used, rather […]

  • report

    Chapter 1: Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Black Immigrant Population

    Black immigrants are a diverse group with notable differences in demographic, economic and geographic characteristics, often tied to the regions of their birth countries. Black immigrants are also notably different from other Americans. For example, immigrant blacks are more likely than U.S.-born blacks to have a college degree or to be married. Compared with all […]

  • report

    Global Publics: Economic Conditions Are Bad

    Seven years after the beginning of the global financial crisis, a Pew Research Center survey of 40 nations finds that publics in fewer than half the countries have a positive view of their economy.

  • report

    References

    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian Luke. 2014. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics. July. Gonzalez-Barrera, Ana and Jens Manuel Krogstad. 2014. “U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. […]

  • report

    The Whys and Hows of Generations Research

    At the center of the Pew Research Center’s mission is a commitment to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in attitudes between demographic and political groups. An individual’s age is one of the most common predictors of differences in attitudes and behaviors. On issues ranging from foreign affairs to social policy, age […]

  • report

    Appendix B: Methodology

    Data Sources The data in this report mainly come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey (ACS). The survey collects detailed information on a broad range of topics, including race, country of birth, year of immigration and citizenship. The ACS has a continuous collection design with monthly samples of about 250,000; the nominal […]