---
title: "Data Feed: Same-sex marriage support, Ukrainian-Russian relations, Venezuela’s political culture"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-03-05"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/03/05/data-feed-same-sex-marriage-support-ukrainian-russian-relations-venezuelas-political-culture/"
---

# Data Feed: Same-sex marriage support, Ukrainian-Russian relations, Venezuela’s political culture

*A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.*

**Politics **[Despite challenges, most N.J. Christie voters sticking by him](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~redlawsk/EP/Tables2014/ChristieRatingsGWBScandalMarch2014.pdf), Rutgers-Eagleton [Record 59% support same-sex marriage; half say it's constitutional right](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/record-support-for-gay-marriage-half-see-it-as-a-constitutional-right/), ABC/WashPost

**Economy **[60 years of budget deficits in one chart](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/04/explore-60-years-of-budget-deficits-in-one-chart/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), Washington Post [Breaking down spending in Obama's budget proposal](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/presidential-budget-2015/), Washington Post [White House more optimistic about economy than CBO](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304360704579419070716820210?mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [Obama's calculations on the deficit and debt](http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/obamas-calculations-on-the-deficit-and-debt/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Business%20Day&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body), New York Times [Federal spending on science would remain tight](http://chronicle.com/article/Spending-on-Science-Already/145123/), [tables](http://chronicle.com/article/Table-Details-of-Obamas-2015/145119/), Chronicle of Higher Ed. [PC shipments dropped 9.8% last year, further declines expected](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304815004579419163687067766?mod=ITP_marketplace_3&mg=reno64-wsj), Wall Street Journal [Jobless rates in 25 states, D.C. fell significantly in 2013](http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140304.htm), BLS [U.S. job creation improved in February](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167711/job-creation-improved-february.aspx), Gallup

**Health & Society** [Having children is major driver of spending patterns](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167705/having-children-major-driver-spending-patterns.aspx), Gallup [States that spend least on students are growing fastest](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/states-that-spend-the-least-on-students-are-growing-the-fastest/284186/), NCES via The Atlantic [Big Pharma cutting back on paying doctors for drug talks](http://www.propublica.org/article/as-full-disclosure-nears-doctors-pay-for-drug-talks-plummets), ProPublica [Number of border patrol agents has soared since 1990s](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304585004579417570736618890?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth&mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal

**International **[Ukrainians, Russians both want open borders, but not integration into single state](http://dif.org.ua/en/events/ukrainieyu-ne-hochut.htm), Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation/Kyiv International Institute of Sociology/Levada Institute [Visualizing economic ties between Russia, Ukraine and Europe](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/visualizing-the-economic-ties-between-russia-ukraine-and-europe/), Harvard Business Review [Between 2007-12, Venezuelan political culture shifted away from stable democracy](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/ITB013en.pdf), Vanderbilt/LAPOP [Ratings war in Mexico pits Nielsen against TV giants](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304450904579364711103563596), The Wall Street Journal [Breakdown of China's $2.45 trillion budget for 2014](http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/03/05/beijing-plans-to-spend-2-45-trillion-this-year-heres-how/), The Wall Street Journal [Euro area GDP up by 0.3% in Q4 2013](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-05032014-BP/EN/2-05032014-BP-EN.PDF), Eurostat

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