Why the U.S. census doesn’t ask Americans about their religion
The Census Bureau has collected data on Americans’ income, race, ethnicity, housing and other things, but it has never directly asked about their religion.
The Census Bureau has collected data on Americans’ income, race, ethnicity, housing and other things, but it has never directly asked about their religion.
The bureau is considering counting most Americans using Social Security data, IRS files and other administrative records.
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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.
While the largest Christian traditions and religious “nones” can be consistently analyzed, smaller groups produce a large margin of error.
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.
The national total in the 2020 census was largely accurate, but the Census Bureau has estimated miscounts for some states and demographic groups.
While survey research in the United States is a year-round undertaking, the public’s focus on polling is never more intense than during the run-up to a presidential election.
Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) is now the Center’s principal source of data for U.S. public opinion research.
A new telephone survey experiment finds that an opinion poll drawn from a commercial voter file produces results similar to those from a sample based on random-digit dialing.
An experiment comparing responses to 27 questions fielded on both a telephone and a web survey found no significant mode differences in overall opinion about Trump or many of his signature policy positions.