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A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Marriage is back – at least, a little bit, and with some caveats.
New data released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau reaffirm the strong linkage between educational attainment and the marital status and living arrangements of parents of minor children
America is in the midst of two major changes to its population: We are becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray. Explore these shifts in our new interactive data essay.
The Vatican plans to ask a range of questions on topics related to the family, including divorce, artificial contraception and same-sex marriage.
A new survey finds that nearly one-in-four Hispanic adults are now former Catholics, while rising numbers are Protestant or unaffiliated with any religion.
This is the fourth year for the popular Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0, covering topics that aren’t discussed in health care.
For as long as romantic relationships have existed, people have sought assistance in meeting potential partners using whatever options were at their disposal. Matchmaking and arranged marriages have existed for centuries, and printed personal ads are nearly as old as the newspaper industry itself. More recently, technological developments from the VCR to the (pre-internet era) […]
More than four-in-ten single mothers have never been married, up from just 4% in 1960.
Online dating sites are just one of the ways that people can meet prospective partners online. In this chapter, we examine the wider online landscape around dating and relationships, and the ways in which Americans are using the internet to meet and interact with potential, current, or past love interests. 5% of those Americans who […]
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