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    Teens and Gaming Data Set Posted

    The data set for our 2008 survey on teens, gaming and civic engagement is now posted for download on our site.

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    Global Public Opinion in the Bush Years (2001-2008)

    Once he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama will have to navigate a world that has grown highly critical of the United States. Since 2001, the Pew Global Attitudes Project has documented a decline in America’s international image amid widespread opposition to U.S. foreign policy.

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    Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where’s Home?

    Most Americans have moved to a new community at least once in their lives, although a notable number — nearly four-in-ten — have never left the place in which they were born.

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    What a Year! People-Press Poll Reports in 2008

    Findings from Pew Research Center polls over the year told the story of the longest — and one of the most exciting — presidential elections in U.S. history as well as recording the public’s reactions to other major events ranging from the pope’s visit, to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the onset of a mega-economic downturn.

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    Hillary’s New Job Better Known Than Dow Jones Average

    While just about everyone knows Obama’s new secretary of state, fewer than half were generally aware of where the Dow is trading these days. A new Pew News IQ survey provides an updated look at the public’s knowledge of political and world affairs. Test your own knowledge of current affairs against that of the broader public before you read the report.

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    About the Survey

    Results for this report are based on telephone interviews among a nationwide sample of 1,000 adults, 18 years of age or older, conducted Dec. 4-7, 2008 under the direction of ORC (Opinion Research Corporation). For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling is plus […]

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    Not So Silent Nights

    Fully 87% of Americans are not at all bothered by Christmas music in stores and public places.

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    The Future of the Internet III

    A survey of experts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, and the structure of the Internet itself improves. They disagree about whether this will lead to more soci…

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    Adult Gamers in Action

    CBS News found adult gamers to illustrate their coverage of our study (and “White Wedding” will never be the same for me).

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    Necessary Cars

    Detroit may take some comfort from the fact that nine out of ten (91%) Americans see their cars as a necessity, essentially the same number who said so a decade earlier (93%).

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