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    Appendix A: About the Survey

    The bulk of the analysis in this report stems from a Pew Research Center survey conducted by telephone with a national sample of adults (18 years of age or older) living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results are based on 2,002 interviews (801 respondents were interviewed on a landline […]

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    Appendix A: About the Survey

    The bulk of the analysis in this report stems from a Pew Research Center survey conducted by telephone with a national sample of adults (18 years of age or older) living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results are based on 2,002 interviews (801 respondents were interviewed on a landline […]

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    Methods

    Study Design & Documentation Introduction The Pew Research Center’s Teen Relationship Study was funded, designed and analyzed by Center staff. Quantitative fieldwork was conducted by the GfK Group (GfK, formerly Knowledge Networks.) Specifically, the survey examined the attitudes of teens age 13 to 17 years old, as well as those of their parents, toward technology. […]

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    Chapter 4: U.S. Public Has Mixed Views of Immigrants and Immigration

    Americans have complex views about immigrants living in the U.S. today. On balance, U.S. adults are somewhat more likely to say immigrants are making American society better in the long run (45%) than to say they’re making it worse (37%). Yet these views vary widely by education, race and partisan affiliation. And when asked what […]

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    Race and Ethnicity in the Local News Ecosystem

    Two of the three metropolitan areas studied here contain racial and ethnic subpopulations large enough to study on their own—in the case of Denver, those who identify as Hispanic, and in the case of Macon, those who identify as black.[26. numoffset=”26″ Sioux City contains a small but growing Hispanic community. Due to sample sizes, this […]

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    Chapter 2: How Teens Hang Out and Stay in Touch With Their Closest Friends

    Teens have many different kinds of friends. There are casual acquaintances, associates, classmates, school friends, friends from camp or church or dance or soccer, all with varying and shifting degrees of closeness. The preceding chapter of this report examined the role of digital technologies in the broad scope of teens’ friendships. In this chapter, we […]

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    Continued Bipartisan Support for Expanded Background Checks on Gun Sales

    Survey Report Two years after the failure of Senate legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases, the public continues to overwhelmingly support making private gun sales and sales at gun shows subject to background checks. Currently, 85% of Americans – including large majorities of Democrats (88%) and Republicans (79%) – favor expanded background checks, […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Population Estimates and Projections: Definitions, Methods and Data Sources Overall Methodology The national projections presented here use a variant of the basic cohort component model in which the initial population is carried forward into the future by adding new births, subtracting deaths, adding people moving into the country (immigrants), and subtracting people moving out (emigrants). […]