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title: "III. Data Sources"
description: "Acknowledgements Cary L. Funk, associate professor in the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, performed the regression analyses for this report. Wendy Wang, a research analyst at the Pew Research Center, and April Clark, formerly a research associate at the Pew Research Center, did the bulk of the data analysis […]"
date: "2008-10-23"
authors:
  - name: "Paul Taylor"
    job_title: "Former Author of The Next America and the former Vice President of Pew Research Center"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/paul-taylor/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2008/10/23/iii-data-sources/"
---

# III. Data Sources

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**Acknowledgements** Cary L. Funk, associate professor in the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, performed the regression analyses for this report. Wendy Wang, a research analyst at the Pew Research Center, and April Clark, formerly a research associate at the Pew Research Center, did the bulk of the data analysis of the surveys.