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    IV. The Households and demographics of 30- to 44-Year-olds

    The economic well-being of adults ages 30 to 44 is influenced not just by their own labor market characteristics and those of any partners, but also by the nature of their households. The measure of economic well-being used in this analysis already takes account of differences in the size of the household, but the makeup […]

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    National Day of Prayer

    A federal appeals court recently overturned a lower court ruling that had declared the National Day of Prayer to be unconstitutional. The day of prayer, established by Congress in 1952, occurs annually on the first Thursday in May, which this year falls on May 5.

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    About the News Interest Index

    The News Interest Index is a weekly survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press aimed at gauging the public’s interest in and reaction to major news events. This project has been undertaken in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, an ongoing content analysis of […]

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    Social Networking Sites and Our Lives

    Close to half of all adults now use social networking sites (SNS) — double the number users in 2008 — and the average user is getting older. Are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? A new study finds SNS users more trusting, engaged and able to keep close social ties.

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    Social networking sites and our lives

    How people’s trust, personal relationships, and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social network sites and other technologies.

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted May 2, 2011 among a national sample of 654 adults 18 years of age or older living in the United States (555 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 99 were interviewed on a cell phone and had no landline telephone). The survey […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted May 2, 2011 among a national sample of 654 adults 18 years of age or older living in the United States (555 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 99 were interviewed on a cell phone and had no landline telephone). The survey […]

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    Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

    About the General Public Survey Results for the general public survey are based on telephone interviews conducted March 15-29, 2011 among a national sample of 2,142 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (a total of 1,052 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,090 were interviewed on […]

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    Health Topics

    Eight in ten adult internet users look for information online. Again, 80% of internet users have looked online for information about at least one of the following topics:[11.numoffset=”11″ “Health Topics” (2011). See: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/HealthTopics.aspx] Internet access drives information access. Since one-quarter of U.S. adults do not go online, the percentage of health information seekers is lower […]