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The PDF shows the results for each of the 198 countries and territories on the 20 questions that comprise the Pew Research Center’s Government Restrictions Index and the 13 questions that comprise the Social Hostilities Index. Although each question is weighted equally, many of the questions contain gradations, allowing partial scores depending on intensity or […]
Government Restrictions on Religion To assess the level of restrictions on religion by governments around the world, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life selected the following 20 questions for the Government Restrictions Index (GRI). The Pew Research staff then combed through 19 published sources of information, including reports by the U.S. […]
45% of U.S. adults live with chronic disease. Living with a chronic disease has an independent effect on people’s technology adoption and health behavior
Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2014 — The share of countries with a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion reached a six-year peak in 2012, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. A third (33%) of the 198 countries and territories included in the study had high religious hostilities […]
Six-in-ten Americans say that “humans and other living things have evolved over time,” while a third reject the idea of evolution, saying that “humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.”
A portrait of the 45% of U.S. adults living with chronic health conditions