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National polls like the Center’s come within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response rate federal surveys.

NPORS is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center.

While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.

The new survey covers topics such as whether the public thinks society is moving too quickly or not quickly enough on gender identity issues.

Most of our research on the U.S. news environment has been from the viewpoint of the public, but this time we surveyed journalists themselves.

With new 2022 survey results just around the corner, here are five of the many insights from the newly added data available on the database.

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