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Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Polling organizations have taken close looks at how election surveys are designed, administered and analyzed. We are no exception.
Although most Americans back a higher minimum wage, wide disparities in local living costs make finding an appropriate rate difficult.
Read a Q&A with Pew Research Center’s Ruth Igielnik and Scott Keeter about a recent study about voter files.
The vast majority of proposed amendments die quiet, little-mourned deaths in committees and subcommittees.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the start of the Great Recession, five ways in which the U.S. workforce has changed over the past decade.
Courtney Kennedy of Pew Research Center, who chaired survey researchers organization AAPOR’s task force on political polling in the 2016 U.S. elections, discuss the group’s findings and recommendations.
The great majority of Americans who vote on Election Day will use one of two basic technologies: “fill-in-the-bubble” and other optical-scan ballots, or touch-screen computers and other direct recording electronic systems.
A conversation with the director of the Center’s Data Labs team on their new report on congressional communications and the uses and misuses of “big data.”
All but five states will hold at least one primary this year, cementing the primary’s dominance over the older caucus system in the presidential nominating process. But compared to 2008, the last time both parties had open nomination contests, the voting started later this year and is a bit more spread out.
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
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