A divide between college, non-college Republicans
White Republicans with a college degree differ from those without a degree in their views on immigration, racial issues, politics and government, and business.
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Field dates: 11/11/15 – 02/07/16
Respondents: Nationally representative sample of individuals ages 18 and older who do not identify as Latino or Hispanic, but report having Hispanic, Latino, Latin American or Spanish ancestry or heritage.
Margin of Error: +/- 5.9 percentage points at the 95% confidence interval.
This survey focused on identity, changes in racial identification overtime, parents’ views about Hispanicity, advantages and disadvantages of being Hispanic, political views, assimilation and the economy.
To better understand the current landscape of commercially available online nonprobability samples, Pew Research Center conducted a study in which an identical questionnaire was administered to nine samples supplied by eight different vendors along with the Center’s probability-based online panel. A benchmarking analysis – in which a subset of each survey’s results was compared to […]
This appendix provides an overview of the data sources used in the report. It then describes statistical methods used to summarize differences between men and women, including regression analysis methods. Next, it discusses the meaning of the term “gender” in the context of this report. Finally, it concludes with discussion of the thresholds of religious […]
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