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    Surfing for Fun

    About 40 million Americans were browsing the web just for fun or to pass the time on a typical day in December 2005.

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    Bush Approval Falls to 33%, Congress Earns Rare Praise

    Summary of Findings In the aftermath of the Dubai ports deal, President Bush’s approval rating has hit a new low and his image for honesty and effectiveness has been damaged. Yet the public uncharacteristically has good things to say about the role that Congress played in this high-profile Washington controversy. Most Americans (58%) believe Congress […]

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    Less Opposition to Gay Marriage, Adoption and Military Service

    Summary of Findings Public acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years, though it remains a deeply divisive issue. Half of Americans (51%) continue to oppose legalizing gay marriage, but this number has declined significantly from 63% in February 2004, when opposition spiked following the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and […]

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    Part 1. Introduction

    About this report Over the last six years, the Pew Internet Project has asked tens of thousands of people thousands of questions about the internet. We have measured internet users’ online behavior, we have probed their awareness and attitudes about computers and the internet, and we have gathered impressions of how the internet fits into […]

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    How Women and Men Use the Internet

    Men continue to pursue many internet activities more intensively than women. At the same time, trend data show that women are catching up in overall use and are framing their online experience with a greater emphasis on deepening connections with peo…

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    Russia’s Weakened Democratic Embrace

    The latest Pew Global Attitudes poll finds the Russian people would choose a strong economy over a good democracy by a margin of almost six to one.

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    Americans Taking Abramoff, Alito and Domestic Spying in Stride

    Summary of Findings The public has been hardly stirred by the flurry of major Washington news in the early days of 2006. Jack Abramoff’s admission that he bribed members of Congress has sparked little interest, with just 18% paying very close attention to news reports on the disgraced Washington lobbyist. An overwhelming majority of Americans […]

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    IV. A Measure of Occupational Dissimilarity and the Socioeconomic Status of Occupations

    This section develops two composite measures that may be used to measure differences in occupational distributions and rank occupations by socioeconomic status. The occupational profile of Latino immigrants is found to be the most dissimilar from the profile of white workers. An important reason for this gap is differences in the levels of education. Hispanics […]

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    Appendix 1: Selected Demographic Characteristics of Mexican Migrants

    The younger and more recently arrived respondents to the survey are better educated than their predecessors. They are also more likely to come from Mexican states that have become sources of migration in recent years and are gravitating to parts of the United States that have only recently become settlement areas for Mexican migrants, such […]

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    III. Migrants’ Experiences in Mexico: At Work in Farming and Production

    Lack of work does not appear to be the main reason why migrants leave Mexico for the United States. Most migrants in the survey reported that they were gainfully employed before they left and, in fact, their employment experience reflects that of the overall labor force in Mexico. The data show that unemployment in Mexico […]