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    IV. Workplace and Home

    All Hispanics are more likely to speak English on the job, where it may be a necessity of employment, than at home. Among Latino immigrants, 29% speak more English than Spanish or only English at work, compared with 7% who do so at home. An additional 24% speak English and Spanish equally at work, and […]

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    III. Foreign-Born Hispanics

    The next sections of this report look in-depth at how some characteristics of adult immigrants are linked to their skill in using English. In general, immigrants are most likely to speak and read English very well if they have lived in the United States for many years, hold a college degree or arrived in this […]

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    III. Communication

    The most common form of cross-border exchange is communication. And among the different forms of communication, telephone calls are by far the most prevalent. Three-quarters of foreign-born Hispanics call someone in their native land at least occasionally, and two-thirds do so at least once a month. About 41% call at least once a week, with […]

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    IV. Remittances, Property Ownership and Civic Activity

    Remittances, or the money sent by immigrants to relatives in their country of origin, are a topic of great interest because of the size of the financial flow. According to the Bank of Mexico, in 2006 Mexicans alone received $23 billion in family remittances, almost all of it dispatched from the U.S. Just over half […]

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    III. Latinos Online

    Previously, the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted telephone surveys only in English and reported on the internet activities of English-speaking Hispanics.[4. numoffset=”4″ “Hispanics and the Internet” (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2001).] Building on this and research conducted by other organizations,[5. “Latino National Survey: Toplines” (Woodrow Wilson Center, December 2006); “Trends and […]

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    Part 2. Latinos Online

    Introduction Previously, the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted telephone surveys only in English and reported on the internet activities of English-speaking Hispanics.[4.numoffset=”4″ “Hispanics and the Internet” (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2001).] Building on this and research conducted by other organizations,[5. “Latino National Survey: Toplines” (Woodrow Wilson Center, December 2006); “Trends and […]

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    Survey Methodology

    The Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life conducted a public opinion survey among people of Latino background or descent on the topic of religion. The study was conducted via telephone by ICR, an independent research company based in Media, Pa. Interviews were conducted from Aug. 10 to Oct. 4, […]

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    Pope to Visit ’Pentecostalized’ Brazil

    April 19, 2007 Updated: May 9, 2007 by Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life When Pope Benedict XVI landed in São Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport on May 9, he entered a religious landscape very different from the one that confronted his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, on his first visit to […]

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    Methodology

    This analysis is based primarily upon the merging of data from two surveys—the 2006 National Survey of Latinos (NSL), and the 2006 Hispanic Religion Survey—both of which were conducted by International Communications Research (ICR) on behalf of Pew Research Center projects during the same time period, using analogous methodologies. The NSL was conducted from June […]

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