Laura Silver

Senior Researcher

Laura Silver is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. She is an expert in international survey research and writes about international public opinion on a variety of topics, including media usage and partisanship in Europe, Chinese public opinion, and global attitudes toward China. She is involved in all aspects of the research process, including designing survey questionnaires and sample designs, managing fieldwork, processing and analyzing data, and writing reports. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, she was a foreign affairs research analyst at the U.S. Department of State in the Office of Opinion Research where she designed and implemented surveys in multiple countries in East Asia. She received a dual Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and the political science department at the University of Pennsylvania where her work focused on American public opinion of China, particularly in the context of presidential elections. Her work has been published in journals such as the International Journal of Public Opinion Research and International Studies Quarterly.

Publications

Pew Research CenterMarch 15, 2019

With global survey research, it's important to understand what people are thinking about the subject we're studying. Focus groups help address this.

Pew Research CenterMarch 7, 2019

Access to mobile phones and social media is common across emerging economies. People around the world see certain benefits from these technologies, yet there are also concerns about their impact on children.

GlobalFebruary 5, 2019

Whether in advanced or emerging economies, younger people, those with higher levels of education and those with higher incomes are more likely to be digitally connected.

GlobalJanuary 25, 2019

Only a third of Venezuelans trust their national government. Venezuelans’ evaluations of their national economy have worsened since 2013.

Russians, Indians and Germans see their country playing a more important role than people in other countries do

GlobalNovember 12, 2018

People in Russia, India and Germany stand out for being more likely than those in other countries to say their country is playing a bigger role in world affairs.

Media & NewsOctober 30, 2018

They tend to be more left-leaning, more progressive in their social and political views, more receptive to immigrants and more favorable toward the European Union. They are also more mixed in their views of traditional center-left parties than older Western Europeans.

Media & NewsOctober 30, 2018

Younger adults in eight Western European countries are about twice as likely as older adults to get news online than from TV. They also are more critical of the media's performance and coverage of key issues.

GlobalOctober 22, 2018

A median of 23% in eight key countries in Western Europe name immigration as one of the top two problems facing their country.

GlobalOctober 9, 2018

Most in the region feel positively about the role the internet plays in their countries, but long-standing digital divides between internet haves and have-nots persist.

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