Americans on Healthy Food and Eating
About half of U.S. adults say healthiness of food is important when deciding what to eat. But taste and cost matter more.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About half of U.S. adults say healthiness of food is important when deciding what to eat. But taste and cost matter more.
We took a closer look at how Americans’ views and experiences have evolved on a variety of topics over the last 20 years.
Below are the instructions given to researchers who coded the responses to the open-ended question. Keywords listed with each code represent examples indicating how a unit of information could be coded and are not a complete list of all concepts per code. We asked respondents in 24 countries what they think would help improve the […]
Nearly a quarter of countries used force to prevent religious gatherings during the pandemic; other government restrictions and social hostilities related to religion remained fairly stable.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, while 15% favor less strict gun laws.
Two-thirds of U.S. adults favor laws and policies that require trans athletes to compete on teams that match their sex assigned at birth.
Americans offer a lackluster evaluation of how the country has balanced priorities during the coronavirus outbreak. Fewer than half say the country has given the right amount of priority to the needs of K-12 students, public health or quality of life.
The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.
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Here’s a look at what surveys by Pew Research Center and other organizations have found about Americans’ mental health during the pandemic.
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