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    Appendix A: References

    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian V. Luke. 2016. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July–December 2015.” Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May.http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201605.pdf Fox, Susannah and Gretchen Livingston. 2007. “Latinos Online.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, March. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2007/03/14/latinos-online/ Horrigan, John B. and Maeve Duggan. 2015. “Home Broadband 2015.” […]

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    1. Changes in the American workplace

    A shifting economic landscape is driving significant changes in the American workplace. Employment opportunities increasingly lie in jobs requiring higher-level social or analytical skills, or both. Physical or manual skills, as much in demand as social or analytical skills some three decades ago, are fading in importance. Not coincidentally, employment is rising faster in jobs […]

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    Many countries allow child marriage

    Almost all of the world’s nations have laws specifying at which age a couple can marry, and in most of these countries, those under the age of 18 are allowed to wed.

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    Moving Without Changing Your Cellphone Number: A Predicament for Pollsters

    By Meredith Dost and Kyley McGeeney Each year about 36 million Americans move residences, according to the Census Bureau. And they quite often take their cellphone numbers with them. Others have not moved but bought their cellphone in a different state. The net result, according to new Pew Research Center estimates, is that 10% of […]

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    Methodology

    The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by the Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults living in households. Respondents who self-identify as internet users and who provided an email address participate in the panel via monthly self-administered Web surveys, and those who do not use the internet or decline […]

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    Methodology

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted August 9-16, 2016 among a national sample of 2,010 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (507 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,503 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]

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    3. A portrait of those who have never been to libraries

    Nearly half (48%) of Americans visited libraries in the past year. Roughly a third (32%) say they have used libraries at one time or another, though not in the past 12 months. Additionally, one-in-five (19%) say they have never visited a public library or a bookmobile. This has been a persistent trend in Pew Research […]