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    Obama’s NSA Speech Has Little Impact on Skeptical Public

    Survey Report President Obama’s speech on Friday outlining changes to the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone and internet data did not register widely with the public. Half say they have heard nothing at all about his  proposed changes to the NSA, and another 41% say they heard only a little bit. Even among those […]

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    Chapter 2: Views on the Morality of Suicide

    Views about physician-assisted suicide are, as expected, tied more broadly to beliefs about the morality of suicide. Such beliefs tend to vary depending on the circumstances considered. About six-in-ten adults (62%) believe a person has a moral right to end their own life if they are suffering great pain and have no hope of improvement. […]

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    Section 3: Perceptions of Public Libraries

    Americans’ perceptions of public libraries The vast majority of Americans ages 16 and older say that public libraries play an important role in providing free access to materials and resources, promote literacy and a love of reading, and improve the overall quality of life in a community: 95% of Americans say that “because it provides […]

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    Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments

    Most Americans say there are some circumstances in which doctors and nurses should allow a patient to die, but a growing minority says that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patient’s life in all circumstances.

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    Part 1: How the internet has woven itself into American life

    In possibly the first survey of its kind, in 1983, polling firm Louis Harris & Associates asked U.S. adults if they had a personal computer at home and, if so, if they used it to transmit information over telephone lines.[2. numoffset=”2″ Survey by Southern New England Telephone. Methodology: Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates, September […]

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    The Rise of Federal Immigration Crimes

    Between 1992 and 2012, the number of offenders sentenced in federal courts more than doubled, driven largely by a 28-fold increase in the number of unlawful reentry convictions.

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    Chapter 3: Personal Wishes for and Attention to End-of-Life Treatment

    The Pew Research survey asked respondents about their personal preferences for medical treatment in different scenarios. A majority of adults (57%) say they would ask their doctors to stop medical treatment if they had a disease with no hope of improvement and they were suffering a great deal of pain, while 35% would tell their […]

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    Chapter 1: Opinion About Laws on Doctor-Assisted Suicide

    Public opinion on laws that would allow physician-assisted suicide is closely divided, with 47% of U.S. adults approving and 49% disapproving of laws that would allow medical doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for terminally ill patients who choose to commit suicide. The opinion divide over this issue is virtually unchanged from a 2005 […]

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    A Snapshot of Reading in America in 2013

    Who’s reading—and how: A demographic portrait As of January 2014, some 76% of American adults ages 18 and older said that they read at least one book in the past year. Almost seven in ten adults (69%) read a book in print in the past 12 months, while 28% read an e-book, and 14% listened […]

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    Chapter 2: Equal Treatment for Men and Women

    While women are achieving more educationally and participating more in the labor force than ever before, there is a widespread perception among the public that full equality between men and women remains an elusive goal. Only four-in-ten Americans say that society generally treats men and women equally. Attitudes have changed considerably in this regard over […]

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