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    Multiracial in America

    Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S.

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    How Pew Research Center conducted its survey of multiracial Americans

    We released our first report on American multiracial adults, a group that comprises an estimated 6.9% of the adult population, or nearly 17 million adults. The report looks at who they are demographically, their attitudes and experiences, and the spectrum of their racial identity.

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    China’s middle class surges, while India’s lags behind

    China and India both succeeded in slashing poverty from 2001 to 2011. But while that contributed to a rapidly growing middle class in China, it did little to increase the number of Indians who could be considered middle income.

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    U.S. Catholics Divided Over Global Warming

    Media Contact: Katherine Ritchey, Communications Manager 202-419-4372, kritchey@pewresearch.org Washington, June 16, 2015 — On the eve of a forthcoming encyclical by Pope Francis on the environment and climate change, a new Pew Research Center survey finds U.S. Catholics’ views on global warming are broadly reflective of American public opinion writ large; a solid majority believe that […]

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    Parents, social support and outreach on social media

    Parents reach out in a variety of ways to provide social support to their networks online. Mothers are particularly active in responding to their networks in both good times and bad. Social media is used by parents to reach out to friends, family, and acquaintances – particularly in moments of celebration or hardship. To gauge […]

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    Appendix: Methodology and Data Sources

    Updated August 13, 2015: This new edition includes corrected estimates for Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Taiwan, and some related aggregated data. This study estimates the population distributions by per capita income in 2001 and 2011 in 111 countries. The distributions are derived from household survey data collected in each country. For most countries, however, […]

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