Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
10 a.m.-Noon Rescheduled from February 18 Washington, D.C. Featured Speakers: Stanley Carlson-Thies, Fellow, Center for Public Justice; former White House Associate Director for Cabinet Affairs Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State Respondents: Anne Farris, Washington Correspondent, the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy Fredrica D. Kramer, Senior Consultant […]
Single Parents Lag Behind Married Parents in Computer and Internet Use Note: All numbers and percentages in this section regarding single parents were derived from combined data from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys from 2001 to 2002, unless otherwise noted. Combining data sets was necessary to amass a large enough sample to probe […]
Moms Look for Medical Information, Dads Look for News and Leisure There are approximately 24 million mothers and 21 million fathers who use the Internet. Many of the patterns of their online use can be attributed to their gender or age, more so than their parental status. Still, there are some points to make about […]
Parents of Younger and Older Children and the Difference Experience Makes In order to analyze the difference between parents of young children and parents of teenagers, we divided the parent population into two subgroups: parents of children 11 years or younger, and parents of children 12 to 17 years old. Parents with children in both […]
At a reporter’s request, we took a special look at those ages 38-56 and compared them to those ages 18-29 and those 65 and older.
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (reception to follow) Washington, D.C. Speakers Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Chair of Humanities and Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Hugh Heclo, Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University E.J. Dionne Jr., Co-Chair, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution; and columnist, the […]
From the industrial West to Latin America and Asia, people generally point to financial concerns as their most pressing personal problem. When respondents were asked to describe in their own words the biggest problem confronting them and their families, economic difficulties were cited most frequently in 40 of 44 nations surveyed. Nearly half of Americans […]