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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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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted January 2-5, 2014 among a national sample of 1,005 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (500 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 505 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 268 who had no landline […]

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    Over a quarter of internet users download or listen to podcasts

    Pew Research Center polling shows that the podcast user base continues to expand. A May 2013 survey found 27% of internet users ages 18 and older download or listen to podcasts, up from 21% three years ago in May 2010 and 7% of internet users in 2006.

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    The Gurus Speak

    Among the experts who contributed to this project were some of the most prominent Internet analysts of our generation. Here we highlight the predictions of some of the people most deeply involved in shaping our digital present. New business models, Internet voting, privacy, MOOCs Vint Cerf, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist, predicted, “There […]

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    The Growth in Digital Reporting

    At a time when print newsrooms continue to shed jobs, thousands of journalists are now working in the growing world of native digital news—at small non-profits, big commercial sites and other content outlets that have moved into original news reporting.

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    Appendix B: Methodology of surveys

    Survey data in this report are based on two Pew Research Center surveys conducted with a nationally representative sample of either Hispanics or Asian Americans. Differences between groups or subgroups, such as foreign-born and native-born Hispanics or foreign-born and native-born Asian Americans, or between Asian Americans and Hispanics, are described in this report only when […]

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    News Anchor Topline

    Survey Topline Other questions from this survey previously released. About the Survey The analysis in this report is based on a survey conducted August 7-14, 2013 among a sample of 1,052 adults, 18 years of age or older. The survey was conducted by the GfK Group using KnowledgePanel, its nationally representative online research panel. KnowledgePanel […]

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    About this Report

    This report is part of a larger research effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that is exploring the role libraries play in people’s lives and in their communities. The research is underwritten by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This report contains findings from a nationally representative survey of 6,224 Americans ages […]