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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 12-16, 2012, among a national sample of 3,019 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (1,806 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,213 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]

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    Main Findings

    Apps and privacy: More than half of app users have uninstalled or decided to not install an app due to concerns about their personal information In this survey, we found that 88% of American adults use cell phones. Some 43% of these cell owners now download apps to their phones, which is a notable increase […]

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    IV. Growing Satisfaction with the Nation’s Direction

    Latino registered voters have grown more optimistic about the country’s direction since 2011. According to the Pew Hispanic survey, 45% of Latino registered voters say they are satisfied with the nation’s direction today, up from 36% in 2011[7. numoffset=”7″ See Lopez, Gonzalez-Barrera, and Motel, 2011.] and 27% in 2008.[8. See Lopez and Livingston, 2009.] This […]

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    Chapter 6: Census Trends for Income and Demography

    This chapter uses trend data from the U.S. Census Bureau to analyze changes during the modern era in the incomes of Americans at all levels of the economic spectrum. In the half century following World War II, American families could always count on rising prosperity. Each decade ended with family incomes higher than what they […]

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    Methodology

    About this Study Data collection was conducted in two phases.  In phase one, Pew Internet conducted two online and one in-person focus group with middle and high school teachers, as well as two in-person focus groups with students in grades 9-12. Focus group findings were instrumental in shaping the development of a 30-minute online survey, […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 13-16, 2012 among a national sample of 1,001 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (600respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 401were interviewed on a cell phone, including 188 who had no landline telephone). The […]

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    Chapter 2: Middle-Class Demographics

    Asked to place themselves on a five-step socioeconomic ladder, about half of Americans (49%) say they are in the middle, according to the Pew Research survey. In a similar survey taken in 2008, 53% of adults placed themselves in the middle class. An additional 17% of the public places itself in the upper or upper […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    This report includes survey data from several sources, including newly released results from a survey conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, among a national sample of 2,973 adults. The new survey is based on […]

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    Appendix A: 2010 National Survey of Latinos Methodology

    Appendix A: 2012 National Survey of Latinos Methodology Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted from Sept. 7 through Oct. 4, 2012, by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS), an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,765 Latino respondents ages 18 and older. The survey included a main sample of […]