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    Methodology

    About this Study This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from March 15 to April 3, 2012, among a sample of 2,254 adults, age 18 and older.  […]

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    Methodology

    About this Study This report is based on the findings of a survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from January 20 to February 19, 2012, among a sample of 2,253 adults, age 18 and older.  […]

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    Chapter 2: Demographic Portrait of Adult Children of Immigrants

    Overview Many of the nation’s U.S.-born children of immigrants are just coming into adulthood, but as a group they already are having an impact on the nation’s communities, workforce, electorate and other realms of American life. The most striking features of this U.S. second generation—the adult children of immigrants—are their youth and their racial and […]

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    Latinos Overwhelmingly Support DREAM Act

    Most Latinos support proposed DREAM Act legislation that would grant legal status to unauthorized immigrant children if they meet certain conditions.

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    Survey Methods

    General Public Survey Results for the general public survey are based on telephone interviews conducted April 30 – May 13, 2012, among a national sample of 1,004 adults 18 years of age or older living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (600 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 404 […]

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    II. Demographics

    Nativity Nearly two-fifths (37%) of all Hispanics are foreign born, compared with 13% of the overall U.S. population. The groups with the largest foreign-born shares are Guatemalans, Hondurans and Peruvians (all 67%). Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are the only Hispanic origin groups with majority native-born shares. Only 36% of Mexicans and 1% of Puerto Ricans[6. […]

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    Chapter 2: Life in the United States

    Most Asian Americans feel good about their lives in the U.S. They see themselves as having achieved economic prosperity on the strength of hard work, a character trait they say is much more prevalent among Asian Americans than among the rest of the U.S. population. Most say they are better off than their parents were […]

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    Chapter 4: Immigration and Transnational Ties

    One of the characteristics of the modern wave of Asian immigration to the United States is that it has gathered momentum in an era when the biggest sending countries have experienced dramatic economic growth and standard of living gains. Yet the Pew Research survey finds few Asian immigrants looking back over their shoulders with regret. […]