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    Views on Gun Laws Unchanged After Aurora Shooting

    Overview There has been no significant change in public views on the issue of gun control and gun rights following the July 20th shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Currently, 47% say it is more important to control gun ownership, while 46% say it is more important to protect the rights of Americans […]

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    Section 1: Watching, Reading and Listening to the News

    Television continues to be the public’s top daily news source. In the current survey, 55% say they watched the news or a news program on television yesterday. That is little changed from recent news consumption surveys. In the 1990s, however, far more Americans said they watched television news yesterday. The percentages saying they listened to […]

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    Methodology

    About This Study A number of people at the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism worked on PEJ’s “Winning the Media Campaign 2012.” Director Tom Rosenstiel and Associate Director Mark Jurkowitz wrote the report along with senior researcher Paul Hitlin and researcher Nancy Vogt. Paul Hitlin supervised the content analysis component. Additional coding […]

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    Appendix C: Survey Methodology

    Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Opinion Research Business in Iraq, Morocco and Tunisia and Princeton Survey Research Associates International in the other 36 countries. Findings are reported exclusively for Muslims; however, the survey is based on national samples that did not screen out non-Muslims, except in […]

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    Chapter 5: Religious Practices

    Asian-American Christians are about as likely as Christians overall to say they engage in daily prayer and even more likely to report that they attend religious worship services at least once a week. But U.S. Asians as a whole are more likely than the general public to say they seldom or never pray, and they […]