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    Teens and the internet

    This presentation pulls together the latest Pew Internet data about how teens use the internet, their cell phones, and other technology. It explores how the world of digital natives is different from their predecessors.

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    Reluctant Suffragettes: When Women Questioned Their Right to Vote

    by Jodie T. Allen, Senior Editor, Pew Research Center In the year 1980, 59.4% of voting-age U.S. women cast ballots in that fall’s presidential election. According to the Bureau of the Census, they were joined by 59.1% of voting-age men. That comparison is noteworthy because, 60 years after passage of the 19th Amendment granted them […]

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    Appendix A: Survey Methodology

    Results for this study are based on telephone interviews obtained through two surveys conducted by ICR/International Communications Research, an independent research company. One survey, the 2008 National Survey of Latinos, Economics and Politics, was conducted among a nationally representative sample of 1,540 Latino respondents ages 18 and older, from November 11 through November 30, 2008. […]

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    II. Looking Forward: The Obama Administration

    Latinos are optimistic about the incoming Obama administration. Seventy-two percent believe that Barack Obama will have a successful first term, while 13% expect his first term to be unsuccessful. Both native-born and foreign-born Latinos hold equally positive perspectives on the Obama administration. Seventy-three percent of the native born foresee success for Obama, as do 72% […]

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    III. Personal Finances

    While Latinos and the general U.S. population share similar views on the current situation of the U.S. economy, Latinos hold a more negative view of their own current personal financial situation than does the general public. More than three-quarters (75%) of Hispanics say their personal finances are in poor (30%) or fair shape (46%). Among […]

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    V. Non-Housing Debt

    Compared with the general population, Latinos are less likely to hold debt. Some 28% of Latinos report that they have no credit card or installment loan debt whatsoever, compared with 19 percent of the general population (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, October 2008). More than half (55%) of the general population […]

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    Appendix A: Survey Methodology

    Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by ICR/International Communications Research, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,540 Latino respondents ages 18 and older, from November 11 through November 30, 2008. Of those respondents, 622 were native born (including Puerto Rico) and 914 were foreign born (excluding Puerto […]

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    IV. Local Job Market Conditions

    More than three-in-four (78%) Latinos say that jobs are difficult to find where they live, a sentiment shared by 73% of the general public. The bleak perspective on job opportunities is pervasive among all groups of Latinos. However, the foreign born, especially those who have arrived recently, are more likely than the native born to […]

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    VII. Changing Economic Behaviors

    In a deteriorating economy, many Latinos have been adjusting their economic behaviors, including sending smaller remittances, curtailing spending plans and participating in informal loan agreements with family and friends. Remittances More than one-third (36%) of Latino adults say they have sent money to someone in their home country in the past year. as have more […]

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    Abortion Views by Religious Affiliation

    Thursday, Jan. 22 marks the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade (1973). Abortion remains a divisive issue in the U.S., with a slim majority (53%) in favor of keeping it legal in all or most cases and four-in-ten in favor of making it illegal in all or most […]