Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About half (49%) of registered voters say they are very or fairly satisfied with the presidential candidates, while a similar share (48%) say they are not too or not at all satisfied. Voter satisfaction with the candidates is higher than it was in 2016, when just 40% expressed satisfaction, but lower than it was for […]
While evaluations of Donald Trump’s handing of specific issues related to the coronavirus outbreak are fairly similar to his overall job rating (44% approve), Americans view Trump’s performance on some dimensions better than on others. Trump receives his most positive ratings for how he is addressing the economic needs of businesses facing financial difficulties. About […]
Children’s religious practices are tied to their families’ traditions.[28. numoffset=”28″ See Petts, Richard. 2009. “Trajectories of Religious Participation from Adolescence to Young Adulthood.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. Also see Smith, Christian, and Melinda Lundquist Denton. 2005. “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.”] To better understand these links, the survey […]
The public is sharply divided by party, even as most support international cooperation and large majorities say it is important that the U.S. is respected around the world.
A living database of political communication In 2015, Pew Research Center launched an initiative to study political rhetoric on a large scale by building an ever-expanding database of political social media activity across multiple platforms, starting with Facebook and now including Twitter. To support this effort, researchers have spent hundreds of hours collecting, cleaning and […]