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    Parents’ Time with Kids More Rewarding Than Paid Work — and More Exhausting

    There’s no tougher job than being a parent, or so the saying goes. This sentiment seems to be confirmed by a new Pew Research Center analysis of government time use data. Parents find caring for their children to be much more exhausting than the work they do for pay. At the same time, parents find much more meaning in the time they spend with their children than in the time they spend at work.

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    Who’s Not Online and Why

    As of May 2013, 15% of American adults ages 18 and older do not use the internet or email. An additional 9% of adults use the internet but lack home access.

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    Current Congress is not the least productive in recent history, but close

    Updated data on the legislative productivity of the 113th Congress is available here. As Congress gets ready to return from its August recess and address the pressing issue of whether to take action in Syria, it does so amid largely unfavorable views from the public. Seven-in-ten Americans have a “very” or “mostly” unfavorable opinion of […]

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    A Portrait of Jewish Americans

    American Jews overwhelmingly say they are proud to be Jewish and have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, but their identity is also changing: 22% of American Jews now say they have no religion.

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    Venezuela Topline and Survey Methods

    Survey Topline Survey Methods About the 2013 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below. The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error […]

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    Survey Methods

    About the 2013 Spring Pew 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. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below. The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error based on […]

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    Methodology

    About this Study A number of people at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism worked on Pew Research’s “The Crisis over Syria: How Al Jazeera America Tackled Its First Major Story.” Associate Director Mark Jurkowitz and Director Amy Mitchell wrote the report. Research Analyst Katerina-Eva Matsa analyzed the statistics and created the […]