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    Chapter 5: Young Adults at Work

    Satisfaction A majority of working adults, regardless of age, say they are either completely or somewhat satisfied with their current job. Younger workers, ages 18 to 34, are a bit less likely than those 35 years and older to say they are completely satisfied; 31% of 18- to 34-year-old workers are completely satisfied, compared with […]

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    Main findings

    Two-thirds of online adults have a profile on a social networking site, and most restrict access to friends only. Two in three online adults (63%) say they currently maintain a profile on a social networking site, up from just 20% who said they had ever created a profile in 2006.[3.numoffset=”3″ The May 2011 Survey asks: […]

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    Appendix C. Methodology

    The measures of migration developed for this report draw on numerous data sources from both Mexico and the U.S. The principal Mexican data sources are: Mexican censuses (Censos de Población y Vivienda) of 1990, 2000 and 2010 (10% sample of each); The Mexican Population Count (II Conteo de Población y Vivienda) of 2005 (10% sample); […]

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    The Rise of Intermarriage

    The share of new marriages between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from each other increased to 15.1% in 2010, more than double the share in 1980.

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    Event Transcript: Asian Americans

    In a conference call with journalists, the Pew Forum’s staff discussed the findings of “Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths,” the second report based on a comprehensive, nationwide survey of Asian Americans.

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    V. Politics, Values and Religion

    Latinos have often been characterized as more socially conservative than most Americans. On some issues, such as abortion, that’s true. But on others, such as the acceptance of homosexuality, it is not. When it comes to their own assessments of their political views, Latinos, more so than the general public, say their views are liberal. […]

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    Methodology

    2011 Teens and Digital Citizenship Survey Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project JULY 2011 Summary The 2011 Teens and Digital Citizenship Survey sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 799 teens […]

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    Who are the Boomerang Kids?

    This generation of young adults has sometimes been labeled the “boomerang generation” for its proclivity to move out of the family home for a time and then boomerang right back. The Great Recession seems to have accelerated this tendency. The Pew Research survey found that among all adults ages 18 to 34, 24% moved back […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted December 6-19, 2011 among a national sample of 2,048 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (a total of 769 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,279 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 633 who had […]

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    What teens do with their phones

    What do teens do with their phones? A majority of teens exchange texts daily with others, and half exchange texts daily specifically with their friends. Fully 63% of all teens say they exchange text messages every day with people in their lives. Just 1% of teens say they text less than once a week, and […]