Your favorite Fact Tank data in 2015
From Millennials in the workforce to religion in America, our most popular posts told important stories about trends shaping our world.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
From Millennials in the workforce to religion in America, our most popular posts told important stories about trends shaping our world.
At least half of all adult global internet users are social networkers Across the 40 countries surveyed, a median of 76% of internet users say that they use social networks, which include Facebook and Twitter in all countries (except for Twitter in China), plus other popular country-specific social networks. Between 2013 and 2015, there has […]
Nearly 6.8 million Hispanics voted in the 2014 congressional election, a record total. But the voter turnout rate among Hispanics fell to 27%, the lowest rate ever recorded for Hispanics in a midterm election. Voter turnout in 2014 was down among all Americans compared with 2010. According to estimates based on Census Bureau data, 92.3 […]
From trust in government to views of climate change, here are some of Pew Research Center’s most memorable findings of the year.
Only about half of Millennials say they believe in God with absolute certainty, and four-in-ten say religion is very important in their lives.
American parents across demographic groups say being a parent is central to who they are, but the ways they approach parenting – and the concerns they have about their children – vary in some significant ways between mothers and fathers as well as across generations, and racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. For example, while similar […]
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, both economically and socially, technology adoption remains one of the defining factors in human progress. To that end, there has been a noticeable rise over the past two years in the percentage of people in the emerging and developing nations surveyed by Pew Research Center who say that they use the internet and own a smartphone.
That’s compared with 27% of Gen Xers and 24% of Boomers who say the same.
A new Pew Research Center report looks at the challenges parents face in raising their children and how parenting approaches differ across demographic groups.
About nine-in-ten Americans learn about the election in a given week. But they are divided on what type of news source – from television to digital to radio to print – they find most helpful.
Notifications