Dangers that teens and kids face: A look at the data
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Of the 4,705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2,378, or 51%, have been ruled intentional.
Surveys have found a shift in gun policy attitudes over time. Here’s a look at how public opinion on the subject is measured.
Americans with young children in their home are just as likely as other adults to have a gun in their household.
A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterms, or 11% of eligible voters nationwide. But in many states with close races this year, Latinos make up a smaller share of eligible voters.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Mass shootings capture national attention, but they represent a relatively small share of firearm homicides.
Number of Americans who killed themselves with a gun in 2010.
National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.
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