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Giving a share of one’s income to the church has been a part of European tradition for centuries. Today, several countries continue to collect a “church tax” on behalf of officially recognized religious organizations, in some cases levying the tax on all registered members.
The analysis in this report is based on a nationally representative survey conducted from Feb. 22 to March 4, 2018, among 5,035 U.S. adults ages 18 years or older. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which […]
A large share of respondents predict enormous potential for improved quality of life over the next 50 years for most individuals thanks to internet connectivity, although many said the benefits of a wired world are not likely to be evenly distributed. Andrew Tutt, an expert in law and author of “An FDA for Algorithms,” said, […]
This report is based on respondents to a self-administered web survey conducted between Nov. 29 and Dec. 12, 2016, who were matched to at least one of five different commercial voter file databases. This includes 3,014 individuals who were validated as having voted in the 2016 general election and 756 who were classified as nonvoters. […]
Adam Hughes is associate director of Data Labs at Pew Research Center. He is an applied computational social scientist focused on communication, behavior and public opinion. His research also evaluates the promise and pitfalls of emerging methodological approaches. He has coauthored research that uses computer vision to understand gender in online images; work that applies natural […]