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    Methodology

    This study projects the future population sizes of Christians, religious “nones” and people of other religions in the United States. Since recent religious change in the U.S. has been driven primarily by voluntary changes in religious identity – religious switching – we modeled for the first time how the religious landscape could change in scenarios […]

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    Sidebar: Demographic profiles

    In India and around the world, family patterns are usually tied to a variety of demographic measures, such as education, wealth, urbanicity and fertility. And these, in turn, are tied to religion. In other words, to understand sex selection patterns among India’s major religious communities, it is important to examine other factors that might be […]

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    How lawmakers in the new 118th Congress do – and don’t – mirror the nation

    Quarterly Update A message from Pew Research Center President Michael Dimock · Subscribe ↗ Dear readers, Every two years, Pew Research Center studies the demographic makeup of the newly elected Congress. Among other things, we look at lawmakers’ race and ethnicity, gender, age, educational background and religion. Then we assess how the demographic profile of Congress has […]

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    1. Changes in son preference, ultrasound use and fertility

    Among Indians overall, sex selection during pregnancy is at least in part a result of a cultural preference for sons over daughters, which may be thought of as “son preference” or “daughter aversion,” or both. A preference for sons seems to be implied in the ancient Hindu epic “Mahabharata,” in which Gandhari is blessed to […]