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    Key facts about U.S. poll workers

    What do poll workers do, and how many typically help in general elections? Read about state requirements for these temporary election staffers and more.

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    Methodology

    The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in […]

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    For Most U.S. Gun Owners, Protection Is the Main Reason They Own a Gun

    Gun owners in the United States continue to cite protection far more than other factors, including hunting and sport shooting, as a major reason they own a gun. About half of Americans who don’t own a gun say they could never see themselves owning one (52%) while nearly as many could imagine themselves as gun owners in the future (47%).

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    Appendix A: Adjusting for mode effects when combining telephone surveys and the American Trends Panel

    Since 2018, Pew Research Center’s primary U.S. public opinion source has been online surveys conducted on the nationally representative American Trends Panel. Previously, telephone surveys were the Center’s primary U.S. public opinion source. This transition from telephone to online surveys was necessary for a variety of reasons, including declining cooperation rates by telephone and increasing […]

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    Partisan divides over K-12 education in 8 charts

    The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.

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    Methodologies

    This report draws on four surveys conducted by Pew Research Center between 2019 and 2022 using the American Trends Panel and supplemented by samples from the Ipsos KnowledgePanel and NORC’s AmeriSpeak panel. Brief descriptions of and links to the methodologies for these previously released surveys are included below. The four studies Study 1: Black Americans’ […]