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    Appendix A: Methodology

    Data sources and analytical approaches used in the report are described in this section. First, this appendix provides shares of the populations that are represented in the study and details on the underlying source data. It goes on to explain how household types were categorized based on relationships in household rosters and how household sizes […]

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    Methodology

    About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2019 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Gallup and Abt Associates. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs are available here.

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    3. What Americans see as contributors to economic inequality

    More than four-in-ten Americans say the outsourcing of jobs to other countries, the tax system, and problems with the educational system contribute a great deal to economic inequality in the United States. But many also point to personal factors, such as the different life choices people make and some people working harder than others. Republicans […]

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    6. Cases tripping flags for bogus data disproportionately say they are Hispanic

    Cases flagged for suspicious survey behavior have a very different demographic profile than nonsuspicious cases, based on respondents’ self-reported characteristics. In particular, respondents flagged for certain suspicious behaviors were quite likely to say they are Hispanic. The baseline rate of respondents in the study self-reporting as Hispanic is 10% (the actual population rate[24. numoffset=”24″ Figure […]

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    Methodology

    This study is based on an analysis of 49,719 sermons, delivered between April 7 and June 1, 2019, and collected from the websites of 6,431 churches found via the Google Places application programming interface (API), a tool that provides information about establishments, geographic locations or points of interest listed on Google Maps. Pew Research Center […]

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    3. Concerns about democracy in the digital age

    About half of the experts responding to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation, but even those who expressed optimism often voiced concerns. This section includes comments about problems that were made by all respondents regardless of their answer to the main question about the […]