Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
India’s artificially wide ratio of baby boys to baby girls – which arose in the 1970s from the use of prenatal diagnostic technology to facilitate sex-selective abortions – now appears to be narrowing. Son bias has declined sharply among Sikhs, while Christians continue to have a natural balance of sons and daughters.
Pew Research Center conducted an experiment to better understand how religious leaders’ messages might influence their followers’ views on the environment. Using a sample of more than 3,000 U.S. adults that was separate from the main survey, the experiment posed two questions. A third of the respondents were shown the following: As you may know, […]
Among the 32 places surveyed, support for legal same-sex marriage is highest in Sweden, where 92% of adults favor it, and lowest in Nigeria, where only 2% back it.
This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which received support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. It was a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion. Research Team Becka A. Alper, Senior Researcher Alan Cooperman, Director, Religion ResearchGregory A. Smith, Associate Director, […]
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
Here are key findings from our research on the relationship between religion and government in the U.S. and Americans’ views on the issue.
How do Republicans who support legal abortion and Democrats who oppose it differ from their fellow partisans? One difference involves religion.
Americans express more confidence in Ukrainian President Zelenskyy than in any of the other six world leaders included in a new Pew Research Center survey.
This data essay was written by Neil G. Ruiz, Associate Director of Race and Ethnicity Research, Sunny Shao, former Research Associate of Race and Ethnicity Research, and Sono Shah, Computational Social Scientist of the Center’s Data Labs. The essay, the accompanying video documentary and its corresponding digital features were produced by Shannon Greenwood, Digital Producer. […]
While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.
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