As GOP celebrates win, no sign of narrowing gender, age gaps
The overall vote share is similar to the 2010 midterm elections, and many of the key demographic divides in 2010 — particularly wide gender and age gaps — remain.
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Chapter 1: Women in Leadership
A total of 299 women have served as U.S. representatives or senators since 1917, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected as the first woman to serve in Congress.[7. numoffset=”7″ United States House of Representatives, History, Arts & Archives, “Women in Congress.”] And this month, a record 104 women were sworn in as members of […]
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Facing challenges, pollsters broaden experiments with new methodologies
Pew Research Center is working to broaden experiments, aimed both at dealing with the problems confronting traditional probability-based polls and taking advantage of opportunities provided by new technologies.
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Registered voters, likely voters, turnout rates: What does it all mean to 2014 election forecasts?
How many Americans are likely to vote, and which voters in the survey are the likely voters? Important as these questions are, there is almost no consensus among the pollsters as to how to identify each of these groups.
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More information Yields More Learning and Sharing
Information is exploding and most digitally-connected Americans think that has brought benefits to them personally and to the broader culture, despite the ceaseless flow of commentary about information overload. It is not easy to figure out exactly how much material flows into and out of people’s lives, but there is no doubt that there is […]
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Which news organization is the most trusted? The answer is complicated.
Using data from our latest media survey, we look at different ways to measure public trust of news organizations.
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Most Would Like to Do More to Protect their Personal Information Online
Six in ten adults feel as though they “would like to do more” to protect the privacy of their personal information online When asked if they feel as though their own efforts to protect the privacy of their personal information online are sufficient, 61% say they feel as though they “would like to do more,” […]
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Public Libraries and Hispanics
Hispanic immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born Hispanics, whites and blacks to use public libraries. But Hispanic immigrants who have made their way to public libraries stand out as the most appreciative of what libraries have to offer.
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Testimony of Jeffrey S. Passel – Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, Industries and Occupations
Written testimony submitted to U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for a hearing on: Securing the Border: Defining the Current Population Living in the Shadows and Addressing Future Flows
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Appendix B: National Survey of Latinos Methodology
Results for this study are based on telephone interviews conducted by SSRS, an independent research company, among a nationally representative sample of 1,520 Latino respondents ages 18 and older. It was conducted on cellular and landline telephones from September 11 through October 9, 2014. For the full sample, a total of 682 respondents were native […]