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    Chapter 3: The Differing Demographic Profiles of First-Time Married, Remarried and Divorced Adults

    In this section, the adult population is divided into three groups, based on their marital status and marital history: those in their first marriage, those who are currently remarried,[13. numoffset=”13″ Remarried” includes those who are currently in a second or higher order marriage. “Divorced” includes all currently divorced adults, including those who had been in […]

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    The Changing Profile of Student Borrowers

    In 2012, a record 69% of the nation’s new college graduates had taken out student loans to finance their education. Graduates from more affluent families are much more likely to borrow today than 20 years ago.

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 15-20, 2014 among a national sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (802 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,201 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]

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    Record Share of Americans Have Never Married

    One-in-five adults ages 25 and older have never married, up from 9% in 1960. Shifting public attitudes toward marriage, hard economic times and changing demographic patterns may have all played a role.

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    Appendix C: Methodology

    Overview The estimates presented in this report for the unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a survey—either the American Community Survey or the March Supplement to the […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    This appendix details the methods used in this study to project changes in the population size and geographic distribution of eight major religious groups from 2010 to 2050. It is organized in five sections. The first section explains how the baseline (2010) religious composition estimates were derived. The second section describes how key input data […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 2-5, 2014 among a national sample of 1,007  adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 506 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 288 who had no landline […]

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    Online Harassment

    40% of internet users have personally experienced online harassment, from the mild to the severe; 73% have witnessed it happen to others.

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    Methods in Detail

    About the 2014 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For more information about methodology in Latin American countries, see the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project’s report, […]