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    1. The American family today

    For updated data, read our 2023 essay “The Modern American Family.” Family life is changing. Two-parent households are on the decline in the United States as divorce, remarriage and cohabitation are on the rise. And families are smaller now, both due to the growth of single-parent households and the drop in fertility. Not only are […]

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    Businesses owned by women, minorities lag in revenue share

    The number of businesses owned by women and minorities has grown considerably in recent years, particularly in certain industries, but based on revenue they remain on average considerably smaller than white- or male-owned firms.

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    How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history

    The United States began regulating immigration soon after it won independence from Great Britain, and the laws since enacted have reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times. We looked at key immigration laws from 1790 to 2014.

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted September 3-7, 2015 among a national sample of 1,004 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 503 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 311 who had no landline […]

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    Polls show Republicans in a restive mood

    Even before Donald Trump and Ben Carson surged past more traditional GOP presidential candidates in the polls, Republicans were feeling restive about their party and its leaders.

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    10. Government and taxes

    While the public expresses a range of negative assessments of the government generally, there continues to be limited public outcry over personal tax burdens. At the same time, a majority say that most Americans want more from the government than they are willing to pay for in taxes. Paying their ‘fair share’ Slightly more than […]

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    About This Report

    This report summarizes the results of an online experiment that utilized an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure racial bias in single-race whites, blacks, Asians and biracial adults with a white and black or a white and Asian racial background. The study sought to measure subconscious racial bias in the five racial groups and to […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    The centerpiece of Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study is a nationally representative telephone survey conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014, among a sample of 35,071 U.S. adults. Approximately 60% of the interviews were conducted with respondents reached on cellphones (n=21,160) and 40% were completed on landlines (n=13,911). A minimum of 300 interviews were conducted […]