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    6. Views of domestic issues: race, immigration, health care, abortion, Supreme Court

    The issue of race has been a flashpoint in the 2016 presidential campaign and Clinton and Trump supporters are divided over whether the country pays too much – or not enough – attention to racial issues these days. Overall, 39% of registered voters say too much attention is paid to racial issues, while an almost […]

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    The Twilight of Landline Interviewing

    By Courtney Kennedy, Kyley McGeeney and Scott Keeter Now that over 90% of U.S. adults have cellphones,[1. Stephen J. Blumberg and Julian V. Luke. Wireless substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, July–December 2015. National Center for Health Statistics. May 2016. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm] survey researchers are considering whether it is necessary […]

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    4. The job market and young adult living arrangements

    This section examines the labor market fortunes of young adult men and women and the role the job market may play in understanding the trends in living with parents. The decennial census has consistently inquired about employment status since 1930, and for 18- to 34-year-old men there is a clear-cut pattern between their labor market […]

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    4. Asylum seeker demography: Young and male

    Since 2013, the demographic profile of asylum seekers in the EU-28, Norway and Switzerland has become slightly more male (67% in 2013, 71% in 2014 and 73% in 2015), with a steady share of asylum seekers arriving under 35 years of age (80% in 2013 and in 2014, 83% in 2015). Among all asylum seekers […]

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    2. Living with mom and/or dad: More common for sons than daughters

    The rise in the share of young adults living with their parents since 1960 has occurred for both men and women and across all major racial and ethnic groups. Generally, throughout the past 135 years young men have been more likely than young women to be living in the home of their parent(s). For both […]

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    1. Voters’ general election preferences

    Currently, 41% of registered voters say they would vote for Hillary Clinton if the general election were held today, while 37% say they would vote for Donald Trump, 10% say they would vote for Gary Johnson and 4% say they would vote for Jill Stein. Differences in support across demographic groups are largely consistent with […]

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    1. How is India doing?

    A growing number of Indians, roughly two-thirds (65%), are satisfied with the way things are going in their country. Such satisfaction is up 9 percentage points since 2015 and 29 points since 2014, in a survey taken before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power. In 2013, the last year of […]