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    3. Why people get married or move in with a partner

    The decision to get married or to move in with a partner is a personal one, but for most married and cohabiting adults, love and companionship trump other considerations, such as the desire to have children someday, convenience or finances. For a majority of those who are married – especially if they didn’t live with […]

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    1. Non-mobile phone users: What hinders their access?

    Mobile phones are common across many emerging economies. Yet, mobile phone ownership is not equally embraced either among nations or within them. Across the 11 emerging economies surveyed as part of this report, up to one-in-five people do not own or even share a mobile phone. While myriad factors affect why people don’t own or […]

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    8. Results from a follow-up data collection

    In analyzing the data, researchers identified two issues that had the potential to affect the study’s conclusions. First, the survey was designed to be administered the same way for each of the six online sources. But after interviewing was completed, researchers discovered that there was a discrepancy with respect to whether respondents were allowed to […]

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    Unauthorized Immigrants in Germany

    An estimated 1.0 million to 1.2 million unauthorized immigrants lived in Germany in 2017, up from 500,000 to 600,000 in 2014, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on the latest available data.

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    5. National conditions

    Half or more say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in their country today in nine of the countries surveyed, a pattern that is mirrored in the U.S. In Greece, Bulgaria and the UK, about three-quarters or more are dissatisfied with the direction of their country, and roughly two-thirds or more are […]