Data Feed: Low-wage breadwinners, record expatriations, Texas Hispanics
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What people like and dislike about Facebook
Read about how people are using Facebook and what they like and dislike about the site.
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Demographics of key social networking platforms
Fully 71% of online adults now use Facebook, and usage among seniors has increased significantly in the last year. Some 45% of internet users age 65 or older now use Facebook, up from 35% who did so in late 2012. Women are also particularly likely to use Facebook compared with men. Some 18% of online […]
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Data Feed: Geography of cancer risk, Antarctic tourism, old Mexico lives on
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Chapter 2: Public Views on the Value of Education
For today’s young workers, the surest path to a good job and satisfying career runs through college. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center finds that college graduates outpace those with less education on virtually every measure of job satisfaction and career success. While most workers say their education has been at least somewhat […]
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Chapter 5: Balancing Work and Family
As any parent knows, combining work and family life can be complicated. The survey asked working parents how balancing work and family had affected their careers. Roughly a quarter (27%) said being a working mother or father had made it harder for them to advance in their job or career, and women were much more […]
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Data Feed: 2013 vote ratings, Twitter earnings, county-to-county migration
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Chapter 1: Education and Economic Outcomes Among the Young
As college costs have increased in recent decades, so, too, have many of the economic rewards for getting a four-year degree as well as the penalties for not doing so, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. The analysis, which focuses on young adults in the first phase of […]
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How Big Is the Digital News World?
In calculating the number of editorial jobs in the expanding digital native news world, Pew Research divided that universe into two main categories. One category encompassed hundreds of outlets with mostly small staffs while the other focused on bigger and more prominent digital news operations with considerably greater job growth, financial resources and reporting capacity. […]
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Overall book readership stable, but e-books becoming more popular
The typical U.S. adult read five books in the past 12 months.