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    Few Say Police Forces Nationally Do Well in Treating Races Equally

    Amid continuing tensions over the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Mo., most Americans give relatively low marks to police departments around the country for holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force, and treating racial and ethnic groups equally. However, most also continue to express at least a fair […]

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    For many Americans, a ‘meh’ midterm

    Midterm elections rarely excite the general public, but 2014 is shaping up to be an especially underwhelming cycle for many Americans.

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted November 6-9 among a national sample of 1,353 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (541 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 812 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 449 […]

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    Appendix C: Methodology

    Overview The estimates presented in this report for the unauthorized immigrant population are based on a residual estimation methodology that compares a demographic estimate of the number of immigrants residing legally in the country with the total number of immigrants as measured by a survey—either the American Community Survey or the March Supplement to the […]

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    Chapter 1: Trends in Remarriage in the U.S.

    Remarriage has been on the rise for decades. Among all adults who are presently married, about one-fourth (23%) have been married before. This marks a dramatic increase from 1960, when only 13% of married adults had previously been married, and from 1980, when 17% had been. Among those married in the past 12 months, the […]

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    About the Surveys

    Most of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 15-20, 2014 among a national sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (802 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,201 were interviewed on a cell […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted October 15-20, 2014 among a national sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (802 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,201 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]

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    Chapter 2: The Demographics of Remarriage

    Age Remarriage is on the rise for Americans ages 55 and older, even as younger generations who have taken the plunge once are becoming less likely to have remarried. What has not changed is that older adults remain more likely to have remarried than their younger counterparts. Remarriage generally becomes more common with age—not surprising, […]