Pew Research Center Staff

A plurality of the public believes that gays and lesbians face “a lot” of bias — roughly double the proportions that see widespread discrimination against blacks or Hispanics.

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

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.

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

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

17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text.

As Americans begin a new year, nearly six-in-ten say this decade will be better than the last 10 years.

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.