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    In honor of Fact Tank’s 1st birthday, a data quiz just for you

    A year ago today, the Pew Research Center launched Fact Tank, our very own data blog. Why? Because even though Pew Research publishes lots of reports, we still have a lot of data that are relevant to the things people are talking about in the news, online and with their friends, and we wanted to be […]

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    Q/A: How Pew Research created the political typology

    The goal of the political typology is to sort people into homogeneous groups, based on their political values and attitudes. It’s an effort to categorize people politically to help us better understand the complexities of the current political landscape.

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    Women’s college enrollment gains leave men behind

    Even though college enrollment rates among young people have risen in recent decades, a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows that females outpace males in college enrollment, especially among Hispanics and blacks.

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    Are We There Yet?

    This links to a FactTank posting explaining how two government agencies–the Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics–have different answers to the question of whether most U.S. babies are minorities. The agencies use different measures, and different methods.

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    Mexican President Peña Nieto’s Ratings Slip with Economic Reform

    Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been praised internationally for his ambitious reforms of everything from the energy sector to education to telecommunications, but a new Pew Research Center survey in Mexico finds that domestically his positive image is faltering and a key component of his political agenda – economic reform – is decidedly unpopular.

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    Digital Life in 2025

    Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill

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    Share the Library User Quiz With Your Community

    Our new “community quiz” tool allows you to administer a unique version of our library user quiz to members of your community. Share it, and learn how your local public library is used.