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    The skills Americans say kids need to succeed in life

    In a recent Pew Research survey, more respondents said communication skills were most important for children to have, followed by reading, math, teamwork, writing and logic. Science fell somewhere in the middle.

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    Chapter 3: Video Games Are Key Elements in Friendships for Many Boys

    Video games[8. numoffset=”8″ Unless otherwise noted, in this report we use the term video games to encompass all types of gameplay on computers, consoles, tablets or phones.] and gameplay are pervasive in the lives of most American teens – and for boys in particular, video games serve as a major venue for the creation and […]

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    How People are Changing Their Own Behavior

    The 87% of respondents in this sample who say they had heard at least a little about the government’s surveillance programs were asked a series of questions about whether they had changed some of the ways they use technology. This section of the report covers their answers. Some are altering their use of information and […]

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    Chapter 2: Changes in the Black Immigration Population Since 2000

    Since 2000, the foreign-born black population has grown from 2.4 million to 3.8 million, an increase of 56%. Among this population, the number of black African immigrants grew most—by 137% between 2000 and 2013. By comparison, the black Caribbean immigrant population rose by a third during this period, while the number of black South American […]

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    Local News in a Digital Age

    In-depth case studies in three disparate cities (Denver, Macon and Sioux City) show that local news still matters, with nearly nine-in-ten city residents following it closely.

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    Results

    Recruitment A 54% majority of those who were invited to join the panel agreed to do so, but not all of these individuals actually took part in panel surveys.  Of those invited, 43% joined and responded to at least one wave in 2014, 33% responded to at least five waves and 20% responded to all […]

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    Methods

    Recruitment All current members of the American Trends Panel (ATP) were originally recruited from the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a large (n=10,013) national landline and cellphone RDD survey conducted Jan. 23- March 16, 2014, in English and Spanish. At the end of that survey, respondents were invited to join the panel. The invitation […]

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    Event: Is the American Public Becoming Less Religious?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNF813ZzHk Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, at least by some key measures of what it means to be a religious person. An extensive new survey of more than 35,000 U.S. adults finds that the percentages who say they believe in God, pray daily and regularly go to church or other religious services […]

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    Chapter 1: Statistical Portrait of the U.S. Black Immigrant Population

    Black immigrants are a diverse group with notable differences in demographic, economic and geographic characteristics, often tied to the regions of their birth countries. Black immigrants are also notably different from other Americans. For example, immigrant blacks are more likely than U.S.-born blacks to have a college degree or to be married. Compared with all […]