Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]
Majorities of voters express dissatisfaction with the candidates. And 63% of voters describe both Biden and Trump as “embarrassing.”
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’ […]
About three-in-ten Americans (28%) currently rate national economic conditions as excellent or good, while a similar share (31%) say they are poor and about four-in-ten (41%) view them as “only fair.” While ratings remain substantially lower than they were prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more positive than they were last […]
In 2020, Pew Research Center launched a new project called the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). NPORS is an annual, cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults. Respondents can answer either by paper or online, and they are selected using address-based sampling from the United States Postal Service’s computerized delivery sequence file.