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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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    Budget Deficit Slips as Public Priority

    Survey Report As Barack Obama begins his final year in office, the goal of reducing the budget deficit, which the public once ranked among the most pressing objectives for his administration, has continued its recent decline in perceived importance. Overall, 56% say that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority for the president […]

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    Methodology

    About the Pew Research Center’s Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. More details about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs are available on […]

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    Methods

    Study Design & Documentation Introduction The Pew Research Center’s Teen Relationship Study was funded, designed and analyzed by Pew Research staff. Quantitative fieldwork was conducted by the GfK Group (GfK, formerly Knowledge Networks). Specifically, the survey examined the attitudes of teens ages 13 to 17 years old, as well as those of their parents, toward […]

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    Methods

    About the Google Play Store Data Collection Findings about Google apps permissions in this report are based on an analysis of data about 1,041,336 apps collected from the Google Play Store between June 2014 and September 2014. The data collection or scraping (“scraping” in this case refers to the process of copying the contents of […]

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    Exploring Racial Bias Among Biracial and Single-Race Adults: The IAT

    To overcome the obstacles of measuring racial attitudes, Pew Research Center conducted an Implicit Association Test (IAT), a technique that psychologists say measures subconscious or “hidden” bias by tracking how quickly individuals associate good and bad words with specific racial groups.