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    About the Surveys

    Much of the analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted December 13-16, 2012, among a national sample of 1,006 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (601 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 405 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 191 who had […]

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    Chapter 1: Changing Views About Work

    Much of the change in the way mothers and fathers spend their time has been driven by women’s growing presence in the workplace. And the pressures of modern parenthood are inextricably linked to the competing demands of work and home life that face both mothers and fathers today. Although they have reached near parity with […]

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    In Social Media and Opinion Pages, Newtown Sparks Calls for Gun Reform

    Gun control was an immediate focus of the conversation on social media and in the opinion pages of newspapers following the shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a special PEJ report. How does the response to this tragedy compare with other shootings? How did coverage in opinion pieces differ than the social media conversation? The report offers answers.

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    Immigrant Women Lead Recent Drop in U.S. Births and Birth Rates

    A new Pew Research Center report concludes that the decline in birth rates and number of births from 2007 to 2010 was led by immigrant women. Overall birth rates declined 8% during this period, but birth rates for immigrant women plunged 14%. Overall numbers of births declined 7% from 2007 to 2010, but births to immigrant mothers fell by 13%. Despite these decreases, foreign-born mothers still account for a disproportionate share of births–23% in 2010, greater than the 17% share of women of childbearing age who are immigrants.

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    Marital Status

    Overall, 41% of births in the U.S. were to unmarried mothers in 2010. The share is higher for births to U.S.-born mothers (42%) than to foreign-born mothers (36%). These differences are explained in part by the greater likelihood of immigrants to be married, which also is the case within each major racial and ethnic group. […]

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    The Final Days of the Media Campaign 2012

    Obama enjoyed a surge of positive news coverage the last week of the campaign—one of his best weeks in months—in the wake of new polls and Superstorm Sandy. How did Mitt Romney fare? Was the tone of the conversation different on social media than in the mainstream press? A new report offers answers.

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    References

    Acemoglu, Daron, and David Autor. 2012. “What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology,” Journal of Economic Literature, June, vol. L, no. 2, pp. 426-463. Aud, Susan, William Hussar, Grace Kena, Frank Johnson, and Erin Roth. 2012. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences. […]

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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data Sets Except where noted, data regarding births are obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) using the VitalStats tabulation tool available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/vitalstats.htm. These vital statistics data reflect information extracted from completed birth certificates for live births, which include the mother’s characteristics at the time of the birth. These tabulations are based […]

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    The Mainstream Media Narrative about the Vice-Presidential Candidates

    The most notable aspect of coverage of the vice-presidential candidates in the 2012 campaign is that this time, Joe Biden has received about as much attention as his opponent. In 2008, John McCain’s surprise selection of largely unknown Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, and her ability to energize the party’s conservative base, […]