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reportDec 20, 2018

How Pew Research Center uses small multiple charts

Researchers and designers at Pew Research Center often create faceted information graphics, commonly known as “small multiples,” to…
reportJun 27, 2018

Using APIs to collect website data

At Pew Research Center, we regularly use APIs to collect information for the studies we produce. Web APIs provide a means of communication between websites and users, structured by rules.
reportJun 27, 2018

How to analyze Pew Research Center survey data in R

Pew Research Center releases its survey data publicly as IBM SPSS files with the .sav extension. But if you don’t have access to SPSS, there are free, open-source tools available to analyze and make use of the data.
reportJul 26, 2018

Detecting subjectivity and tone with automated text analysis tools

There are a variety of tools that can help researchers analyze large volumes of written material. In this post, I’ll examine two of these…
reportNov 13, 2018

Comparing MRP to raking for online opt-in polls

In a recent study about online opt-in polling, Pew Research Center compared a variety of weighting approaches and found that complex…
reportOct 28, 2019

3. Humanity is at a precipice; its future is at stake

The following sections share selections of comments from technology experts and futurists who elaborate on the ways internet use has shaped humanity over the past 50 years and consider the potential future of digital life. They are gathered under broad, overarching ideas, rather than being tied to the specific themes highlighted above. Many of the […]
short readsAug 30, 2018

Most Americans view unions favorably, though few workers belong to one

Most Americans like labor unions, at least in the abstract. A majority (55%) holds a favorable view of unions, versus 33% who hold an unfavorable view, according to a Pew Research Center survey from earlier this year. Despite those fairly benign views, unionization rates in the United States have dwindled in recent decades. As of 2017, just 10.7% of all wage and salary workers were union members, matching the record low set in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
presentationApr 9, 2018

The Information Needs of Citizens: Where Libraries Fit In

Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed the Center’s latest research at the Public Library Association’s 2018 meeting.
reportDec 10, 2018

About this canvassing of experts

The expert predictions reported here about the impact of the internet between 2018 and 2030 came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between July 4, 2018, and Aug. 6, 2018. This is the 10th Future of the Internet study the […]
reportDec 17, 2018

Methodology

To analyze image search results for various occupations, researchers completed a four-step process. First, they created a list of U.S. occupations based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. Second, they translated these occupation search terms into different languages. Third, the team collected data for both the U.S. and international analysis from Google Image Search […]