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    Part 4: How Users Feel About the Sensitivity of Certain Kinds of Data

    Online Americans believe that different kinds of data trails have different value and they want control over some of the more personal material. To test the varying views on the importance of different types of personal information, we asked respondents how important it was to them “that only you and those you authorize have access […]

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    Abercrombie hijab firing highlights Muslim concern about discrimination

    A federal judge ruled this week that the clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch wrongly fired a Muslim employee in San Mateo, Calif., for wearing a headscarf. About six-in-ten Muslim American women (59%) say they wear the headcover (or hijab) at least some of the time, including 36% who say they wear it whenever they are in public.

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    Part 1: Introduction

    For as long as romantic relationships have existed, people have sought assistance in meeting potential partners using whatever options were at their disposal. Matchmaking and arranged marriages have existed for centuries, and printed personal ads are nearly as old as the newspaper industry itself. More recently, technological developments from the VCR to the (pre-internet era) […]

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    Part 3: Who Internet Users are Trying to Avoid; the Information They Want to Protect

    Sometimes, internet users are not trying to be completely anonymous. They say they want to stay unobserved or tracked by certain people or organizations. Thus, we asked the internet users: Have you ever tried to use the internet in ways that keep different kinds of people or organizations from being able to see what you […]

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    Birth Rate Trends Differ Notably by Age Group

    This is an excerpt from a FactTank posting about new data from the National Center for Health Statistics about birth rates in 2011. Rates for younger women fell to record lows, but rates continued to rise for women ages 40 and older.

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    Mothers and work: What’s ’ideal’?

    For most American mothers, part-time work would be their ideal work situation, preferred over full-time work or not working at all outside the home.

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    Chapter 3: Demographic & Economic Data, by Race

    This section looks at a variety of economic, educational, health, political and social indicators to assess change in the relative well-being of black and white Americans in recent decades. The data present a mixed picture. The economic gulf between blacks and whites that was present a half century ago has not disappeared. Measures of household […]

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    In Canada, most babies now born to women 30 and older

    In the U.S. and many other nations, it’s no longer unusual for women to have a first child at age 35 or even 40. In Canada, this rise in births to older mothers has produced a striking turnabout: For the first time on record, birth rates are higher for women in their late 30s than in their early 20s.