Every year, we publish hundreds of reports, blog posts, digital essays and other studies. Here are some of our most noteworthy findings from the past year. | Continue reading
Negative views of China predominate in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe. China also receives unfavorable marks from many neighbors in the Asia-Pacific region. | Continue reading
Today, 57% of Republicans say that if the U.S. is too open to people from around the world, “we risk losing our identity as a nation.” | Continue reading
Majorities of U.S. adults believe their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits, and that it is not possible to go through daily life without being tracked. | Continue reading
Test your knowledge of science facts and applications of scientific principles by taking our 11-question quiz, then compare your answers to the average American and across demographic groups. | Continue reading
The most common age was 11 for Hispanics, 27 for blacks and 29 for Asians as of last July. Multiracial Americans were by far the youngest racial or ethnic group. | Continue reading
This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size. | Continue reading
Roughly a quarter of American adults say they haven’t read a book in the past year. Who are these non-book readers? | Continue reading
What does the migration to online polling mean for the country's trove of public opinion data gathered over the past four decades? | Continue reading
To mark Labor Day, here's what we know about who American workers are, what they do and the U.S. working environment in general. | Continue reading
Overall, 293 U.S. counties were majority nonwhite in 2018. Most of these are concentrated in California, the South and on the East Coast. | Continue reading
Smartphone users in emerging economies – especially those who use social media – tend to be more exposed to people with different backgrounds and more connected with friends they don’t see in person. | Continue reading
Adults under 30 express comparatively low confidence in their fellow citizens and in groups including the military and religious leaders. | Continue reading
American values differ from those of Western Europeans in many important ways. Most notably, Americans are more individualistic and are less supportive of a strong safety net than are the publics of Spain, Britain, France and Germany. However, Americans are coming closer to Europ … | Continue reading
Negative views of technology companies’ impact on the country have nearly doubled since 2015, from 17% to 33%. | Continue reading
Data and trends about key sectors in the U.S. news media industry | Continue reading
Newsroom employment across the United States continues to decline, driven primarily by job losses at newspapers. | Continue reading
Americans 60 and older spend about seven waking hours a day alone. This rises to over 10 hours a day among those living on their own. | Continue reading
Republicans express intensely negative views of “socialism” and very positive views of “capitalism.” Majorities of Democrats view both terms positively. | Continue reading
Midterm voter turnout reached a modern high in 2018, and Generation Z, Millennials and Generation X accounted for a narrow majority of those voters | Continue reading
when designing an online survey questionnaire, there is more than one way to ask a respondent to select which options in a series applies to them. | Continue reading
Internet non-adoption is linked to certain demographic variables, including age, educational attainment, household income and community type. | Continue reading
The steady growth in adoption that social platforms have experienced in the U.S. over the past decade also appears to be slowing. | Continue reading
The steady growth in adoption that social platforms have experienced in the U.S. over the past decade also appears to be slowing. | Continue reading
In 2018, women earned 85% of what men earned. The wage gap was somewhat smaller for adults ages 25 to 34 than for all workers 16 and older. | Continue reading
Pew Research Center now uses 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. | Continue reading
While the idea of raising the minimum wage is broadly popular, efforts to do so at the national level have stalled. We gathered key facts looking at the issue. | Continue reading
Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on many issues every year. Read 18 of this year’s standout findings. | Continue reading
A median of 45% say fewer or no immigrants should be allowed to move to their country, even as people in many countries worry about people leaving to find jobs elsewhere. | Continue reading
One-in-five U.S. adults often get news via social media, slightly higher than the 16% who often do so from print newspapers. | Continue reading
Test your ability to classify 10 news statements as either factual or opinion. | Continue reading
They are more likely to be white and male than U.S. workers overall, though younger newsroom employees are more diverse than their older colleagues. | Continue reading
Younger U.S. adults were better than their elders at differentiating between factual and opinion statements in a survey conducted in early 2018. | Continue reading
Amazon's workers may be getting base pay of $15 an hour, but the impact on their daily lives depends on local living costs. | Continue reading
The share of U.S. adults who support marijuana legalization is little changed from about a year ago – when 61% favored it – but it is double what it was in 2000 (31%). | Continue reading
Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data. | Continue reading
The shares of U.S. adults who say they use the internet, use social media, own a smartphone or own a tablet computer are all nearly identical to the shares who said so in 2016. | Continue reading
Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more. | Continue reading
Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more. | Continue reading
Audiences for nearly every major sector of the U.S. news media fell in 2017 except for radio. Cable news revenue continued to rise, as did digital ad revenue. | Continue reading
Audiences for nearly every major sector of the U.S. news media fell in 2017 except for radio. Cable news revenue continued to rise, as did digital ad revenue. | Continue reading
A median of 92% of European students are learning a language in school. Far fewer K-12 students in the U.S. participate in foreign language education. | Continue reading
This decline in overall newsroom employment was driven primarily by one sector – newspapers, where newsroom jobs dropped 45% from 2008 to 2017. | Continue reading
This decline in overall newsroom employment was driven primarily by one sector – newspapers, where newsroom jobs dropped 45% from 2008 to 2017. | Continue reading
This decline in overall newsroom employment was driven primarily by one sector – newspapers, where newsroom jobs dropped 45% from 2008 to 2017. | Continue reading
Federal officials are considering major changes in how they ask Americans about their race and ethnicity. | Continue reading
In 46 countries around the world, adults under age 40 are less likely to say religion is very important in their lives than are older adults. | Continue reading