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reportDec 27, 2006

Surpluses, Social Issues Mark 2006

Statehouses awash in surpluses ventured into new projects in 2006, from first-in-the-nation preschool for all 3-year-olds in Illinois to a space pad in New Mexico plus advances on such issues as health care, immigration, the minimum wage and global warming that stymied Congress.
reportJan 9, 2007

A Portrait of “Generation Next”

Summary of Findings This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation. A new generation has come of age, shaped by an unprecedented revolution in technology and dramatic events both at home and abroad. They are […]
reportNov 20, 2006

The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science

The internet is used as a research tool by nearly 90% of adult internet users and as a primary source for science news and information for 40 million Americans.
reportNov 20, 2006

The Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science

Fully 87% of online users have at one time used the internet to carry out research on a scientific topic or concept.
short readsNov 1, 2006

Thinking about a Career Switch?

Nearly half of U.S. workers expect they will switch careers sometime in the future. Young workers and part-time workers are more likely to say they are very or somewhat likely to change careers.
reportAug 10, 2006

VII. Education and Age as Factors

The immigrant workforce is characterized by its relative youth and its low levels of education. Most foreign-born workers fall between the ages of 25 and 44 and a smaller share has a college education compared to the native born. Does it follow, then, that the concentration of such workers would have a more pronounced effect […]
reportOct 29, 2006

Part 3. Eroding Attention to the Details of Information Quality

Three-quarters of health seekers do not consistently check the source and date of the health information they find online. In 2001, the Pew Internet & American Life Project collaborated with the Medical Library Association[13.numoffset=”13″ Medical Library Association: A User’s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web. Available at: http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html] to devise a […]
fact sheetAug 25, 2006

Cubans in the United States

Compared with the rest of the Hispanic population in the United States, Cubans are older, have a higher level of education, higher median household income and higher rate of home ownership.
reportNov 27, 2006

Virtual Tours

More than half of internet users have taken virtual tours — nearly doubling the number who had done so in late 2004.
reportOct 5, 2006

Demographic Portrait of Renewalists

Contrary to widespread perceptions, pentecostalism does not always draw disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic sectors of society. Whether pentecostals and charismatics have higher or lower income levels than the general population very much depends on the country in question. In some countries, including the U.S., the survey finds that renewalist groups do tend to have […]