Pew Research Center Staff

Support for suicide bombings in defense of Islam declined by half or more in Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia over the last five years, according to a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey.

That’s the share of Jordanians who say they have a lot or some confidence in Osama bin Laden as a world leader, down sharply from the 56% who said so four years ago.

By 2005-06, just one in five white students (21%) attended a nearly all-white school while the number of nearly all-white public schools was down by 35% from the level a dozen years earlier.

That’s the number of unwed parents who say that having children outside marriage is not at all wrong or only wrong sometimes.

That’s the percentage of the public who say they are probably among the “have-nots” in society rather than the “haves” — twice the number who said so two decades ago.

That’s the share of the Mexican public who rate their current lives at 7 or better on a scale of zero to 10 — the highest proportion of any of the 47 countries covered in the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey.

That’s the very large share of U.S. online adults who use the internet to pursue hobbies from genealogy to gambling.

That’s the percentage of American adults who say an at-home mother is the ideal situation for children; a nearly identical proportion (41%) say a mother working part-time is ideal.

That’s the proportion of Pakistanis who say they have a lot or some confidence in Al Queda leader Osama bin Laden to do the right thing in world affairs — still disturbingly high, but a substantial decline from the 51% who said so just two years ago.