Pew Research Center Staff

A majority of blacks now say that blacks who cannot get ahead in this country are mainly responsible for their own situation.

Overall, about a quarter of Americans see President Obama as black; a majority see him as of mixed race.

Nearly twice as many blacks now as in 2007 say that the “situation of black people in this country” is better than it was five years earlier.

That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they consider themselves Muslims first; 28% say they think of themselves first as Americans.

A substantial minority of Muslims in Nigeria say that violence against civilians in defense of Islam can sometimes or often be justified.

Fully 16% of Americans believe in the “evil eye” or that certain people can cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen to someone.

Nearly one-in-five Americans say they have seen or been in the presence of ghosts.

About half of the U.S. public says they have had a religious or mystical experience.

About one-third of the countries in the world — 64 nations — have high or very high restrictions on religion.

15% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging.