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    Part One: Who Lives with Chronic Conditions

    The diagnosis difference Forty-five percent of U.S. adults report that they live with one or more chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, but also less-common conditions like lupus and cancer.[2.numoffset=”2″ This estimate is in line with previous surveys by the Pew Research Center and other national studies. See: Centers for Disease Control […]

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    Polling on the deficit: Why question order matters

    Polling organizations devote a great deal of attention to the wording of survey questions, but they need to be just as concerned about how questions are ordered. The context in which a specific question is asked, particularly what directly precedes a question in a telephone interview, often has an impact on the way people respond.

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    Books, libraries, and the changing digital landscape

    Kathryn Zickuhr will explore not only how libraries are dealing with the changing technological environment, but also the larger context of Americans’ reading and library habits, and what they expect from libraries in the future.

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    Republicans’ views on evolution

    Significantly fewer Republicans believe in evolution than did so four years ago, setting them apart from Democrats and independents. But behind this finding is a puzzle: If the views of the overall public have remained steady, and there has been little change among people of other political affiliations, how do you account for the Republican numbers? An explainer.

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    Chapter 1: Education and Economic Outcomes Among the Young

    As college costs have increased in recent decades, so, too, have many of the economic rewards for getting a four-year degree as well as the penalties for not doing so, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The analysis, which focuses on young adults in the first phase of […]

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    Religious Hostilities Reach Six-Year High

    A third of the 198 countries studied had a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion in 2012. About three-in-ten countries had a high or very high level of government restrictions on religion, roughly the same as in 2011.

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    Is Tide Turning Over Immigration Views?

    Even as the immigration policy debate continues to intensify, the issue looks like it might be about to take another twist as the sharp decline in the U.S. population of unauthorized immigrants that accompanied the 2007-2009 recession bottoms out. Americans now appear ready for a new approach to immigration policy.

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    5 challenges to estimating global migration

    See the Pew Research Center’s Global Migration Estimates for 2010, including interactives and data. With recent reports of migrants risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean, Roma communities on the move throughout Europe and alleged abuses of migrant workers in the Middle East, one of the most frequently asked question is: How many migrants are there […]

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    2. Remittance Trends

    Overall, remittances to Spanish-speaking Latin America countries have more than doubled since 2000 in real dollars. Those Latin American nations received $22.9 billion in remittances in 2000, a figure that rose to an estimated $53.8 billion in 2013, according to World Bank data. Looking at trends since 2000, the onset of the U.S. Great Recession […]