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    Data Feed: Congress’s productivity, e-reading rises, alternative degree education

    A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers. Politics Congress might be more productive and less partisan than you think, Sunlight Foundation Our politics may be polarized, but that’s nothing new, The Washington Post Are Christie’s political plans bottlenecked? With topline, NBC News/ Marist Poll Ads attacking health […]

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    Methods

    January 2014 Omnibus Week 1 Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International January 2-5 2014 The PSRAI January 2014 Omnibus Week 1 obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,005 adults living in the continental United States. Telephone interviews were conducted by landline (500) and cell phone (505, including 268 without a landline […]

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    Chapter 3: What Men, Women Value in a Job

    The gender gap may open wide on many issues, but the new Pew Research Center survey finds that men and women generally agree about what they value in a job. Overall, Americans give their highest priority to having a job they enjoy doing (43% say this is “extremely important” to them). About a third of […]

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    Methods

    The Pew Research Center Library Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Gates Foundation, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,224 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=3,122) and cell phone (nC=3,102, including 1,588 without a […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted January 9-12, 2014 among a national sample of 1,006 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (502 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 504 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 288 who had no landline […]

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    Chapter 5: Balancing Work and Family

    As any parent knows, combining work and family life can be complicated. The survey asked working parents how balancing work and family had affected their careers. Roughly a quarter (27%) said being a working mother or father had made it harder for them to advance in their job or career, and women were much more […]

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    Chapter 7: Renewalism and Hispanic Christianity

    One of the major findings of Pew Research’s 2006 survey of Hispanics and religion was the strong influence of Pentecostalism and other spirit-filled forms of Christianity. These lively, highly personal faiths emphasize the spiritually renewing “gifts of the Holy Spirit,” such as speaking in tongues, divine healing and direct revelations from God. Together, these religious […]

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    Appendix B: Methodology of surveys

    Survey data in this report are based on two Pew Research Center surveys conducted with a nationally representative sample of either Hispanics or Asian Americans. Differences between groups or subgroups, such as foreign-born and native-born Hispanics or foreign-born and native-born Asian Americans, or between Asian Americans and Hispanics, are described in this report only when […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted January 2-5, 2014 among a national sample of 1,005 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (500 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 505 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 268 who had no landline […]