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    How Does Pew Research Define the Middle Class?

    Senior research staff answer questions from readers relating to all the areas covered by our seven projects, ranging from polling techniques and findings, to media, technology, religious, demographic and global attitudes trends.

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    References

    Bozick, Robert, and Erich Lauff. 2007. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences. “Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002): A First Look at the Initial Postsecondary Experiences of the High School Sophomore Class of 2002.” Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, October. Bricker, Jesse, Arthur B. Kennickell, Kevin B. Moore, and John Sabelhaus. […]

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    Part 7: Librarians’ thoughts

    Using both focus groups and a non-scientific sample of people who volunteered to participate in Pew Internet surveys, we asked library staff members from around the country about their thoughts on many of the library services discussed in this report. This section includes some of their comments on library services for parents and children, including […]

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    The Middle Class Shrinks and Income Segregation Rises

    A new Pew Research Center report shows that the share of upper-income households living in neighborhoods that are mainly upper income has risen from 1980 to 2010, as has the share of lower-income households living in neighborhoods where most other households are lower income. Income segregation also has grown in most of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.

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    Methodology

    Data collection was conducted in two phases.  In phase one, Pew Internet conducted two online and one in-person focus group with middle and high school teachers, as well as two in-person focus groups with students in grades 9-12. Focus group findings were instrumental in shaping the development of a 30-minute online survey, which was administered […]

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    A Recovery No Better than the Recession

    The median income of American households decreased by as much in the two years after the official end of the Great Recession as it did during the recession itself. The latest estimates from the Census Bureau show that the median income for U.S. households in 2011 was $50,054.[1. DeNavas-Walt, Carmen, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica […]

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    References

    Congressional Budget Office. Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007. October 2011. Frey, William H. August 2011. The New Metro Minority Map: Regional Shifts in Hispanics, Asians, and Blacks from Census 2010. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution State of Metropolitan America series. Glaeser, Edward, and Jacob Vigdor. The End of the Segregated […]