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    1. Number of countries with very high restrictions and hostilities went down in 2014

    Countries with the most extensive government restrictions on religion Most countries in the world have some form of government restrictions on religion, but each year a few countries stand out as having particularly extensive restrictions. In 2014, 16 of the 198 countries included in the study had a “very high” level of government restrictions, down […]

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    1. Internet use among Hispanics

    In 2015, wide gaps in internet use existed by demographic group among Hispanics, just as there are among all Americans. But in recent years, some of the largest gains in internet use have been among immigrant Hispanics and those who are Spanish dominant. As a result, internet use among Hispanic adults continues to grow, though […]

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    1. Presidential candidates’ changing relationship with the web

    In 2016, presidential campaigns still deploy and maintain websites as a way of communicating with and mobilizing voters. But as campaigns increasingly prioritize social media outreach, the role of campaign websites has changed – and in some cases narrowed. A new Pew Research Center study of the campaign websites of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton […]

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    1. The evolving landscape of young adult living arrangements

    The year 2014 appears to be a milestone in the unfolding living arrangements of the nation’s young adults. For the first time since 1880, young adults are more likely to be living with a parent than they are to be living with a romantic partner in their own household. [4. numoffset=”4″ In the census data […]

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    3. Loyalty and source attention

    Updated February 2017: The numbers for source recall were updated to account for the small number of times respondents skipped the question. No number changed by more than one percentage point. Attitudinally, Americans are split on whether they feel loyal to their news sources – but behaviorally, they tend to stick to the same sources […]

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    1. Women more likely than men to affiliate with a religion

    The first indicator of religious commitment examined in this study is religious affiliation, that is, whether people report identifying with a faith group. Among women and men ages 20 and older, 83.4% of women and 79.9% of men across 192 countries and territories are religiously affiliated, according to estimates made for Pew Research Center’s 2015 […]