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    Appendix A: Measuring local voting habits

    The study suggests that being a dedicated voter in local elections is strongly connected to local news habits. To measure proclivity to vote, the survey used self-reports about frequency of voting in three types of elections: national elections, presidential primary elections and “local elections, such as for mayor or school board.” Overall, 27% of registered […]

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    1. Birth regions and nations

    As the leading nation of origin for U.S. unauthorized immigrants, Mexico exerts the greatest influence on trends for the overall population, but other nations play a role too. From 2009 to 2014, a decline in Mexican unauthorized immigrants was mostly balanced by an increase in the number from the rest of the world, especially from […]

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    Methodology

    Competitive congressional districts and states Survey respondents were placed within their congressional districts by geocoding their self-reported addresses. The Cook Political Report identified a set of competitive congressional districts and states. As of October 13, 2016, the Cook Political Report classified 56 congressional districts into six categories: likely Democratic (CA-52, FL-10, MD-06, NY-25, VA-04), lean […]

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    Acknowledgments

    This report was issued by Pew Research Center, in association with the Markle Foundation, which consulted on the design of the questionnaire and the structure of the secondary analysis. The Center retained final editorial control over the questionnaire, the analysis of survey and government data, and this report. The Markle Foundation works to realize the […]

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    Methodology

    Overview The estimates presented in this report for the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a survey – either the American Community Survey or the March […]

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    After Seismic Political Shift, Modest Changes in Public’s Policy Agenda

    Survey Report As Donald Trump enters the White House, the nation’s leading policy priorities are little changed from the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency. And the partisan divisions over many of the public’s priorities – from dealing with global climate change to strengthening the nation’s military – remain as wide as ever. Roughly three-quarters […]