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    Methodology – September 2018 Survey

    This analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 11-16, 2018 among a national sample of 1,006 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the United States (406 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 600 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 369 who had no landline telephone). […]

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    2. The state of personal trust

    In addition to their concerns about low and declining levels of trust in government, many Americans are anxious about the level of confidence citizens have in each other. Fully 71% think interpersonal confidence has worsened in the past 20 years. And about half (49%) think a major weight dragging down such trust is that Americans […]

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    4. Americans generally view medical professionals favorably, but about half consider misconduct a big problem

    Most Americans have positive overall views of medical doctors and medical research scientists. But they have more mixed assessments when it comes to trust-related judgments, especially for medical researchers. Fewer than half the public believes medical researchers do a good job, provide fair and accurate information about their findings or care about the public interest […]

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    2. Views of racial inequality

    More than four-in-ten Americans say the country still has work to do to give black people equal rights with whites. Blacks, in particular, are skeptical that black people will ever have equal rights in this country. Americans generally think being white is an advantage in society, while about half or more say being black or […]

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    1. How people around the world view diversity in their countries

    Global migration has increased in the past few decades, and the 27 nations surveyed, collectively, are home to more than half of the world’s international migrants. Most of those surveyed in these nations say their country has become more diverse in the past 20 years (median of 69%).

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    Part Three: The characteristics of communities show some effect on local news habits

    Any local news system is inherently embedded within a particular community – and characteristics of communities vary extensively, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources. Some have a larger share of young adults, driving down the median age, while others have a sizable senior population, driving the median up. Some have […]

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    What Americans Know About Religion

    Before you read the report Test your religious knowledge by taking an interactive quiz. The short quiz includes some questions recently asked in the nationally representative survey that forms the basis of this report. After completing the quiz, you can see how you did in comparison with the general public and with people like yourself. […]

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    Methodology

    This report and accompanying digital interactive tool are based on a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey of 34,897 U.S. adults, conducted October 15-November 8, 2018, on both the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) and Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel. The first part of the report presents the survey results at the national level. The second and third parts […]

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    Religion and Living Arrangements Around the World

    Household size and composition often vary by religious affiliation, data from 130 countries and territories reveals. Muslims and Hindus have larger households than Christians and religious “nones,” influenced in part by regional norms.