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    Appendix A: Data Sources and Methodology

    Survey of Income and Program Participation The figures on the wealth of households are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). SIPP is one of the few nationally representative data sources on the assets and liabilities of households. SIPP has periodically asked a detailed set of questions on assets […]

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    Chapter 1: Wealth Gaps by Age

    Household median net worth in the U.S. stood at $71,635 in 2009. Across age groups, net worth varied from just $3,662 for households headed by adults younger than 35 to $170,494 for households headed by adults ages 65 and older. Net worth was $39,601 for households headed by 35- to 44-year-olds, $101,651 for households headed […]

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    Chapter 7: Trends in Household Wealth, 1984 to 2009

    Estimates of household wealth by race and ethnicity from SIPP are available starting in 1984. The time series is not entirely consistent because of a redesign of the SIPP panel in 1996 and changes to the racial identity question in 2004.[18. numoffset=”18″ See Orzechowski and Sepielli (2003) for more on the SIPP redesign. The racial […]

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    Peer-to-peer Healthcare

    How Facebook Saved a Life Previous research by the Pew Internet Project identified something we call “The Mobile Difference.” When you hand someone a smartphone they are more likely to share, to create, to forward, to record and upload a video, to update their status – to participate, not just consume. And when we talk […]

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    Mormons and Civic Life

    With a Mormon candidate in the race for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, there has been intense media, academic and public interest in Mormons and their religion. The Pew Forum recently held a roundtable discussion with journalists, scholars and policy experts on some of the latest research on Mormons and their place in American society and public life.

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    Internet Use in the U.S.

    Internet Access by Age, Health Status Let’s map this mountain, starting with some bedrock data. This is the known world of internet use in the U.S. which the Pew Research Center has been tracking for over 10 years. Think of us as your GPS for navigating the online world. In order to get an accurate […]

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    Part 3: Privacy and Safety Issues

    In this section of the report, we discuss some of the key issues that relate to teens’ privacy practices and risks to their online safety. We present findings on certain behaviors that teens engage in that may, depending on the circumstances, serve as protective measures or have risky implications for the sanctity of their online […]