Research suggests that the social interaction inherent in a telephone or in-person interview may exert subtle pressures on respondents that affect how they answer questions. The ways respondents change in response to these pressures is the basis of “mode studies” in social science. For example, respondents may feel a need to present themselves in a […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 7-12, 2017 among a national sample of 1,503 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (377 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,126 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 7-12, 2017 among a national sample of 1,503 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (377 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,126 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]
Shared experiences define what it means to be an American. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were such a unifying event for modern Americans. Nothing else has come close to being as important or as memorable, according to a new survey conducted by Pew Research Center in association with A+E Networks’ HISTORY.
Connor, Phillip. 2016. “Number of refugees to Europe surges to record 1.3 million in 2015.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, August. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2016/08/02/number-of-refugees-to-europe-surges-to-record-1-3-million-in-2015/ Connor, Phillip. 2016. “Nearly 1 in 100 worldwide are now displaced from their homes.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, August. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/08/03/nearly-1-in-100-worldwide-are-now-displaced-from-their-homes/ Connor, Phillip. 2016. “Migrant remittances worldwide drop in 2015 for the first […]
About the Pew Research Center’s Spring 2016 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face and telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International, TNS BMRB and ORB International. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific […]
Muslim Americans constitute a population that is rare, dispersed and diverse. It includes many recent immigrants from multiple countries with different native languages who may have difficulty completing a public opinion survey in English. The intense attention paid to Muslims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad, as well as the […]
The results of the 2016 presidential election came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling
