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reportJun 27, 2016

2. Views of race relations

There’s no consensus among American adults about the state of race relations in the U.S.: 48% say race relations are generally bad, and 44% say they are generally good. Similarly, when asked about the amount of attention paid to race and racial issues in the country these days, about as many say there is too […]
short readsFeb 3, 2016

Homeland Security produces first estimate of foreign visitors to U.S. who overstay deadline to leave

Out of 45 million U.S. arrivals by air and sea whose tourist or business visas expired in fiscal 2015, the agency estimates that about 416,500 people were still in the country this year.
reportJan 19, 2016

1. Looking Forward to 2016: The Changing Latino Electorate

The number of Hispanic eligible voters has grown at one of the fastest clips of any group over the past eight years and is projected to be 40% higher in 2016 than in 2008, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. U.S.-citizen Hispanics who turn 18 are the primary source of […]
reportJun 15, 2016

Hispanic News Media: Fact Sheet

Last updated June 2016 The Hispanic news media market in the U.S. speaks to a major portion of the country – as of 2014, there are 55 million Hispanics in the U.S., making up 17% of the total population. Because the number of immigrant arrivals from Latin America has slowed, the population is becoming increasingly […]
reportJan 19, 2016

References

Cook Political Report. Electoral Scorecards. Accessed online at http://cookpolitical.com/ on January 8, 2016. File, Thom. 2015. “Who Votes? Congressional Elections and the American Electorate: 1978-2014.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, July. Accessed online at http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p20-577.pdf on Dec. 4, 2015. Hur, Aram and Christopher H. Achen. 2013. “Coding Voter Turnout Responses in the Current Population Survey.” […]
short readsJan 6, 2016

A new estimate of the U.S. Muslim population

Pew Research Center estimates that there were about 3.3 million Muslims of all ages living in the United States in 2015. This means that Muslims made up about 1% of the total U.S. population.
reportJan 19, 2016

Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016

Hispanic millennials will account for 44% of the Hispanic electorate. The coming of age of youth and naturalizations will drive the number of Latino eligible voters to a record 27.3 million this year.
datasetFeb 7, 2016

2016 Survey of Self-identified Non-Hispanics with Hispanic Ancestry

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.
reportJan 19, 2016

Methodology

Population Estimates This report uses two different, but similar, estimates of the voting-eligible population (or the electorate) for November 2016. Both define the voting-eligible population as U.S. citizens aged 18 years and older in November 2016. The survey-based estimates are used to describe characteristics of the voting-eligible population (e.g., educational attainment); the demographic estimates are […]
short readsMay 11, 2016

The challenges of polling Asian Americans

Why aren’t Asian Americans shown as a separate group when differences among whites, blacks and Hispanics are discussed in survey reports? It’s a good question, so we put together a summary of some of the methodological and other issues on accurately polling U.S. Asians.