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    Israeli Jews from the former Soviet Union are more secular, less religiously observant

    After the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Israel’s largest wave of Jewish immigrants arrived from Russia and other former Soviet republics. These Soviet Jews brought a secular mindset to Israel, and more than two decades later, Jews who were born in the former Soviet Union continue to be noticeably less religious than Israeli Jews overall.

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    Partisanship and Political Animosity in 2016

    The 2016 campaign is unfolding against a backdrop of intense partisan division and animosity. Partisans’ views of the opposing party are now more negative than at any point in nearly a quarter of a century.

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    Behind the Badge

    Majorities of police officers say that recent high-profile encounters between black citizens and police have made their jobs riskier and left many officers reluctant to fully carry out some of their duties.

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    A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults

    Two years ago, Pew Research Center found that Republicans and Democrats were more divided along ideological lines than at any point in the previous two decades. But growing ideological distance is not confined to partisanship. There are also growing ideological divisions along educational and generational lines.

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    1. Religion and the 2016 campaign

    Religious contours of 2016 campaign mostly match 2012 For the most part, the voting intentions of people in major religious groups closely resemble those seen in polling conducted at a similar point in the 2012 campaign. Roughly eight-in-ten white evangelical Protestant voters (78%) say they would support Trump if the election were held today, just […]

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    Pew Research Center at PAA

    Pew Research Center Experts at #PAA2016: Follow our Experts Pew Research Center will be at this year’s Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Washington. Visit us at booth 505 to meet our experts and to learn more about our work. See below for a list of our experts who will be at the booth, […]

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    Appendix A: References

    Blumberg, Stephen J. and Julian V. Luke. 2016. “Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2015.” Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, May. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201605.pdf DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor. 2015. “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, September. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.pdf Kochhar, Rakesh. […]