Are Africans Optimistic About the Future?
As the world sets new development goals, sub-Saharan Africans see hope and challenges ahead — and say they still need aid.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Online nonprobability surveys are fast, cheap, and increasingly popular. We compared nine samples and found that accuracy varied substantially.
Many countries have laws that ban or limit women from wearing religious attire in public places. By comparison, far fewer countries require women to wear particular types of attire for religious reasons.
The 2016 presidential campaign has exposed deep disagreements between – and within – the two parties on a range of major policy issues.
Space exploration has, up to now, been largely funded by the federal government and overseen by NASA. The Pew Research Center survey included two questions about space. One asks about government investment in the International Space Station. A second question asks for views about the role of astronauts as part of space exploration in the […]
To better understand the current landscape of commercially available online nonprobability samples, Pew Research Center conducted a study in which an identical questionnaire was administered to nine samples supplied by eight different vendors along with the Center’s probability-based online panel. A benchmarking analysis – in which a subset of each survey’s results was compared to […]