Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and …
Religious Landscape Study. The RLS, conducted in 2007 and 2014, surveys more than 35,000 Americans from all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices, and social and political views.
Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center
Apr 24, 2024 · Both the FBI and BJS data show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s, when crime spiked across much of the nation. Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-74%), aggravated assault (-39%) and murder/nonnegligent ...
What the data says about abortion in the U.S. - Pew Research Center
Mar 25, 2024 · The CDC says that in 2021, there were 11.6 abortions in the U.S. per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. (That figure excludes data from California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire and New Jersey.) Like Guttmacher’s data, the CDC’s figures also suggest a general decline in the abortion rate over time.
Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins | Pew Research …
Jan 17, 2019 · Pew Research Center has been studying the Millennial generation for more than a decade. But by 2018, it became clear to us that it was time to determine a cutoff point between Millennials and the next generation. Turning 38 this year, the oldest Millennials are well into adulthood, and they first entered adulthood before today’s youngest ...
Key findings about U.S. immigrants | Pew Research Center
Sep 27, 2024 · Growth of this population accelerated after Congress made changes to U.S. immigration laws in 1965. Immigrants today account for 14.3% of the U.S. population, a roughly threefold increase from 4.7% in 1970. The immigrant share of the population today is the highest since 1910 but remains below the record 14.8% in 1890.
How America Changed During Donald Trump’s Presidency
Jan 29, 2021 · By 2017, the first year of Trump’s presidency, the average partisan gap on those same questions had more than doubled to 36 points, the result of a steady, decades-long increase in polarization. On some issues, there were bigger changes in thinking among Democrats than among Republicans during Trump’s presidency.
How Americans Use Social Media | Pew Research Center
Jan 31, 2024 · Roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults (83%) report ever using the video-based platform. While a somewhat lower share reports using it, Facebook is also a dominant player in the online landscape. Most Americans (68%) report using the social media platform. Additionally, roughly half of U.S. adults (47%) say they use Instagram.
What We Know About Gen Z So Far | Pew Research Center
May 14, 2020 · Only 18% of Gen Z teens (ages 15 to 17) were employed in 2018, compared with 27% of Millennial teens in 2002 and 41% of Gen Xers in 1986. And among young adults ages 18 to 22, while 62% of Gen Zers were employed in 2018, higher shares of Millennials (71%) and Gen Xers (79%) were working when they were a comparable age.
The 2020 electorate by party, race, age, education, religion: Key ...
Oct 26, 2020 · ABOUT PEW RESEARCH CENTER Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven research.
Immigrants in America: Key Charts and Facts | Pew Research Center
Aug 20, 2020 · Chart. The foreign-born population residing in the U.S. reached a record 44.8 million, or 13.7% of the U.S. population, in 2018. This immigrant population has more than quadrupled since the 1960s, when the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act took effect. Though growth has begun to slow in recent years, the number of immigrants living in the ...