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    Section 5: Political Engagement and Activism

    Political engagement can take on many different forms, including voting, contributing money to a candidate or political group, working or volunteering for a campaign, attending a campaign event or contacting an elected official. But on every measure of engagement, political participation is strongly related to ideology and partisan antipathy; those who hold consistently liberal or […]

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    2012, Hispanics in the United States Statistical Portrait

    *Visit the most recent data. This statistical profile of the Latino population is based on Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey (ACS). Users should exercise caution when comparing the 2012 estimates with estimates for previous years. Population estimates in the 2012 ACS are based on the […]

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    2012, Foreign-Born Population in the United States Statistical Portrait

    *Visit the most recent data. This statistical profile of the foreign-born population is based on Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey (ACS). Users should exercise caution when comparing the 2012 estimates with estimates for previous years. Population estimates in the 2012 ACS are based on the […]

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    Methods

    Creating the Typology This library engagement typology divides the public into seven groups of people who have ever used a public library, either in person or online, in addition to two groups of people who have never used a public library. The assignment of individuals to one of the seven core typology groups is based on a two-step analysis […]

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    Pope Francis Methodology

    The Pew Research Center used two different software platforms to determine the volume of attention paid to Pope Francis and Pope Benedict. To determine the amount of coverage in the 25 most visited news websites, Pew Research used a tool from General Sentiment. To determine the volume of attention on Twitter, Pew Research used software […]