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    II. Immediate Entry into College

    In October 2012 66% of all recent high school completers were enrolled in college. Among Hispanics who had recently graduated high school, 69% were enrolled. As recently as the class of 2000, only 49% of Hispanic high school graduates immediately enrolled in college the following fall. Since then general college-going has increased among all of […]

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    Climate Change and Financial Instability Seen as Top Global Threats

    Survey Report Publics around the world are concerned about the effect of global climate change and international financial instability, with majorities in many of the nations surveyed saying these are major threats to their countries. But Islamic extremism is also a serious concern, particularly in the United States, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. In contrast, relatively […]

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    Demographics of Asian Americans

    The demographic data shown here display the varied population sizes and characteristics of the largest Asian origin groups. The numbers shown here come from two Census Bureau sources. The population rankings use counts from the 2010 Census for the total Asian-American population and for 20 Asian origin subgroups. The adult characteristics table is derived from […]

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    Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment

    I. Overview A record seven-in-ten (69%) Hispanic high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college that fall, two percentage points higher than the rate (67%) among their white counterparts,[1. Because the microdata for the October 2012 Current Population Surevey are not yet publicly available, a standard error for these rates cannot be […]

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    How to Access Pew Research Datasets

    By Scott Keeter The survey data from the Pew Research Center’s 2011 survey of Muslim Americans are available to researchers for downloading. The dataset can be downloaded on the Datasets page of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The telephone survey of 1,033 randomly-selected Muslim Americans was the second such study conducted […]

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    Chapter 3: Married Mothers Who Out-Earn Their Husbands

    Married mothers are more likely than before to be the primary provider in the family. Among married couples with children, the proportion in which the wife’s income tops her husband’s has increased from about 4% in 1960 to 23% in 2011.[16. numoffset=”16″ The unit of analysis is the household head, therefore married couples in which […]

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    Chapter 3: Non-Fatal Violent Firearm Crimes

    Over the past two decades, the rate of non-fatal violent firearm crime victimizations among Americans ages 12 and older was highest in the early 1990s, and fell sharply (63%) from 1993 through 2000, according to analyses of data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. From 2000 to 2011, the rate declined 33%. In 2009, 2010 […]

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    Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

    National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.