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    1. How different weighting methods work

    Historically, public opinion surveys have relied on the ability to adjust their datasets using a core set of demographics – sex, age, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, and geographic region – to correct any imbalances between the survey sample and the population. These are all variables that are correlated with a broad range of attitudes […]

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    Why Americans Go (and Don’t Go) to Religious Services

    In recent years, the percentage of U.S. adults who say they regularly attend religious services has been declining, while the share of Americans who attend only a few times a year, seldom or never has been growing. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that the main reason people regularly go to church, synagogue, mosque […]

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    Methodology

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted February 7-11, 2018 among a national sample of 1,009 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the United States (405 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 604 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 393 who had no landline telephone). […]