Research Explainers

With our shift to using NPORS for studying topics like the digital divide, Americans can now respond by mail or online. This change in approach sets us up to continue studying tech adoption long into the future.

Based on formal religious identity, China is the least religious country in the world - with just 10% of Chinese adults self-identifying with a religion.

This project is the largest nationally representative survey of its kind to date focused on Asian Americans.

This project represents our first comprehensive examination of Asian American identity using focus groups. Here’s how and why we did it.

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.

A new survey, along with a related series of focus groups, shows the many nuanced views Black Americans hold about science.

A recent Center survey focused on gig platform work. Here is more information about how we crafted the survey and what we learned from it.

Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about Pew Research Center’s report “Jewish Americans in 2020”

We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.