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    Appendix: Detailed tables

    Americans’ views on the morality of married people having an affair % who say married people having an affair is … Note: Figures may not add to 100% or to subtotals indicated due to rounding.Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted March 24-30, 2025.“What Do Americans Consider Immoral?” PEW RESEARCH CENTER Americans’ views on the morality […]

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    3. Views of divorce and open marriages

    A slight majority of Americans (55%) say couples who are unhappy tend to stay in bad marriages for too long, compared with 43% who say these couples tend to get divorced too quickly. Women are more likely than men to say couples stay in bad marriages for too long (58% vs. 52%). Views also vary […]

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    4. Religious intermarriage

    Most who are married say their spouse shares their religion, while 26% don’t. Read about interreligious marriages, spouses discussing religion and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.

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    3. Partisanship by gender, sexual orientation, marital and parental status

    Men continue to be more likely than women to associate with the Republican Party. Partisan affiliation also varies by marital status, with gender differences in party identification apparent among married and unmarried voters. Sexual orientation is also strongly associated with partisanship among both men and women. Marital status Married men and women are more likely […]

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    5. What role should religion play in Muslim- and Jewish-majority countries?

    In a number of countries with sizable Muslim and Jewish populations, we asked Muslim and Jewish adults for their views on religion and governance – specifically, whether religious law should be the official or state law for people who share their religion, and whether their country can be both a democratic country and a Muslim […]

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    Appendix B: Post and comment classification prompts

    For this report, Reddit posts and comments were classified using the following prompts to GPT-4.1 mini. The prompts were designed to mirror the codebooks that our research team used to create the validation datasets of human-annotated posts and comments. In the prompt templates below, italics indicate input text that varies based on the post or […]

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    Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family

    Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about the institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, the public is fairly accepting of diverse family arrangements, though some are seen as more acceptable than others.

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    2023-24 RLS sample sizes and margins of error

    The following table shows the unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study. Groups Unweighted sample size Margin of error (+/- percentage points) U.S. adults 36,908 0.8 Adults in the Midwest 7,549 1.6 Adults in […]

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    Methodology

    The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]