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As internet use grows– whether through a traditional computer, tablet, gaming device or cell phone – new techniques are being developed to conduct social research and measure people’s behavior and opinion while they are online. The Pew Research Center has been exploring these new techniques for measuring public opinion and critically evaluating how they compare […]
The Google Consumer Surveys method has the ability to capture reactions from a broadly representative, though non-probability, sample of internet users in a relatively short period of time. Internet users are sampled by selecting a stratified sample of people visiting the websites of a diverse group of more than 80 publishers that allow Google to […]
One of the biggest questions surrounding mobile technology-especially tablets-is whether it will open up new revenue opportunities to support the news gathering and reporting in ways that did not occur in on desktops and laptops. One rationale is that the pleasure and convenience of reading on a mobile device might induce people to pay for […]
Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 24-28, 2012, among a national sample of 2,008 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (1,204 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 804 were interviewed on a cell […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted November 15-18, 2012 among a national sample of 1,002 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (601 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 401 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 189 who had no landline […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted November 8-11, 2012 among a national sample of 1,000 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (600 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 400 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 191 who had no landline […]
Overview In a busy news week, more Americans say they followed the debate over the “fiscal cliff” very closely than the investigations into the Libya embassy attack, renewed violence in the Middle East or the FBI investigation that led to David Petraeus’s resignation as CIA Director after it found he was having an extra-marital affair. […]
This report includes survey data from several sources, including newly released results from a survey conducted June 28-July 9, 2012, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, among a national sample of 2,973 adults. The new survey is based on […]
Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 24-28, 2012, among a national sample of 2,008 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (1,204 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 804 were interviewed on a cell […]