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    Appendix B: Data sources by country

    General sources and archives Demographic and Health Surveys. Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Implemented by ICF. http://www.dhsprogram.com/. European Social Survey. Led by the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys. City University, (London) in partnership with the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), GESIS (Germany), NSD (Norway), and SCP and the University of Amsterdam […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data sources and analytical approaches used in the report are described in this section. First, this appendix provides shares of the populations that are represented in the study and details on the underlying source data. It goes on to explain how household types were categorized based on relationships in household rosters and how household sizes […]

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    Methodology

    The data used in this report were collected from 12,256 members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) who participated in at least one of seven surveys conducted between February 2018 and July 2019. The specific survey waves and links to their detailed methodologies are listed in the table below. This report was made […]

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    2. Readjusting to civilian life

    The transition from military to civilian life can be challenging for some veterans. While most say readjusting to civilian life was very or somewhat easy, roughly one-in-four say it was at least somewhat difficult. In their assessments of the ease or difficulty of the transition to civilian life, there is a significant gap between veterans […]

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    2. Women’s lead in skills and education is helping narrow the gender wage gap

    Jobs in which social, fundamental, analytical or managerial skills are more important pay better than jobs requiring higher levels of mechanical skills. Wages in these jobs have also increased at a higher rate than in other jobs since 1980, as has the pace of hiring. Workers have raised their education level in response: The share […]

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    Religion and Living Arrangements Around the World

    Household size and composition often vary by religious affiliation, data from 130 countries and territories reveals. Muslims and Hindus have larger households than Christians and religious “nones,” influenced in part by regional norms.

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    5. The future of work in the automated workplace

    The American workplace is changing rapidly, as technology and automation transform the nature of work. Even with the economy at or near full employment, the public is skeptical that the future will bring more job security, and they are wary about the long-term impact of technological innovation on workers. Only 14% of adults say, by […]

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    1. Answers that did not match the question were concentrated in opt-in polls

    By their very nature, open-ended questions pose a greater cognitive challenge to respondents than closed-ended questions. As a result, answers to them also offer a more sensitive indicator of whether a respondent is sincere or not. This study included six open-ended questions: How would you say you are feeling today? When you were growing up, […]