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    3. Middle-income adults largely reflect the nation’s demographics

    As a group, middle-income adults look much like U.S. adults overall, in terms of their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. By some measures, middle-income adults are more similar to all adults today than was true in 1971. For example, adults ages 65 and older were underrepresented in the middle-income population in 1971. But that is no […]

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    1. Library users and learning

    Adults who use libraries and visit library websites are often ahead of the crowd when it comes to being learners, engaging with information and embracing technology. Fully 97% of those who visited a library or bookmobile in the past 12 months say the assertion “I think of myself as a lifelong learner” applies to them […]

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    1. Public interest in science, health and other topics

    Most Americans express a broad interest in health and medicine, as well as in science and technology along with other topics. Seven-in-ten adults (70%) say they are interested in health and medicine, more than any other of the nine topics asked about in the survey. Large shares also say they are interested in local events […]

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    1. Public interest in science, health and other topics

    Most Americans express a broad interest in health and medicine, as well as in science and technology along with other topics. Seven-in-ten adults (70%) say they are interested in health and medicine, more than any other of the nine topics asked about in the survey. Large shares also say they are interested in local events […]

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    Immigrants’ Contributions to Job Creation

    Immigrants are now a sizable segment of the U.S. workforce. In 2014, the nation’s 146 million workers included 24 million immigrants, accounting for 16.6% of total employment.[26. numoffset=”26″ Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015)] Immigrants occupied an even more significant presence within the self-employed workforce last year. Some 2.8 million, or 19%, of the nation’s 14.6 […]

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    Mixed Role of Religion in Views on Biomedical and Food Issues

    Religious factors are at play in public views about some, though by no means all, biomedical topics. For example, there are differences between those who attend worship services regularly and those who do not when it comes to views about the appropriateness of changing a baby’s genetic makeup. But there are no such divides when […]

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    Mixed Role of Religion in Views on Biomedical and Food Issues

    Religious factors are at play in public views about some, though by no means all, biomedical topics. For example, there are differences between those who attend worship services regularly and those who do not when it comes to views about the appropriateness of changing a baby’s genetic makeup. But there are no such divides when […]

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    Who Is Multiracial? Depends on How You Ask

    Racial identity is far from a straightforward concept, and when multiple strands of identity come together this has the potential to increase the complexity.

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    The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground

    After more than four decades of serving as the nation’s economic majority, the U.S. middle class is now matched in size by those in the economic tiers above and below it.

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    Chapter 1: Estimates of Multiracial Adults and Other Racial and Ethnic Groups Across Various Question Formats

    Standard Two-Question Measure The first method used for measuring racial identity was the two-question race and ethnicity format typically used on all Pew Research Center surveys. It is similar to the two-question format presently used in U.S. Census Bureau surveys and by many other government and research organizations.[4. numoffset=”4″ The Census Bureau introduced the option […]