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The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults in the United States living in households. Adults who use the Internet participate in the panel via self-administered web surveys, and adults who do not use the Internet participate via mail. The 18th wave of the panel survey was fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt SRBI from June 7 to July 5, 2016. In total, 4,602 ATP members completed the survey, with 4,172 participating by web and 430 participating by mail. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. Survey weights are provided to account for differential probabilities of selection into the panel as well as differential nonresponse to the panel recruitment survey, the panel invitation, and the panel survey itself (Wave 18). The margin of sampling error for full sample weighted estimates is +/- 2.28 percentage points. The ATP Wave 18 asked questions about politics pre-election, U.S. political items, journalism, and religion items. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults in the United States living in households. Adults who use the internet participate in the panel via self-administered web surveys, and adults who do not use the internet participate via mail. The 20th wave of the panel survey was fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt SRBI from Aug.16 to Sept.12, 2016. In total, 4,538 ATP members completed the survey, with 4,195 participating by web and 343 participating by mail. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. Survey weights are provided to account for differential probabilities of selection into the panel as well as differential nonresponse to the panel recruitment survey, the panel invitation, and the panel survey itself (Wave 20). The margin of sampling error for full sample weighted estimates is +\- 2.39 percentage points. The ATP Wave 20 asked questions about religious freedom, evangelical identification, police, and politics post convention. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) was created by the Pew Research Center. Respondents were recruited through a random digit dial system (landlines and cell phones), resulting in a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults. Surveys were administered in English and Spanish and are web-based. The survey at hand (Wave 24 of the Panel) focuses on cyber harassment and religion "feeling" thermometers. A recent Pew Research Center report using this dataset can be found on the Pew Research Center website. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults in the United States living in households. The 30th wave of the panel survey was fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt Associates from December 4 to December 18, 2017. In total, 4,729 ATP members completed the Wave 30 survey. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. Survey weights are provided to account for differential probabilities of selection into the panel as well as differential nonresponse to the panel recruitment survey, the panel invitation, and the panel survey itself (Wave 30). The margin of sampling error for full sample weighted estimates is +/- 2.33 percentage points. The ATP Wave 30 asked questions about religious typology. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults in the United States living in households. Adults who use the internet participate in the panel via self-administered web surveys, and adults who do not use the internet participate via computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) or mail. The fourth wave of the panel survey was fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt SRBI from May 30 through June 30, 2014. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. In total, 3,217 ATP members completed the survey, with 2,849 participating by web and 368 participating by mail. The responding sample is weighted to account for differential probabilities of selection into the panel as well as differential nonresponse to the recruitment survey, the panel invitation, and the panel survey itself. The margin of sampling error for full sample weighted estimates is +/-2.23 percentage points. The ATP Wave 4 asked questions about religion and technology. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults living in households in the United States. On behalf of the Pew Research Center, Ipsos Public Affairs ('Ipsos') conducted the 44th wave of the panel from February 4-19, 2019. For W44, a supplemental sample of KnowledgePanel (KP) Hispanic Protestants, Jewish and Mormon members is included. In total, 10,429 ATP members and 542 KP members (both English- and Spanish-language survey-takers) completed the Wave 44 survey. Survey weights were provided for the total responding sample. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is +/- 1.46 percentage points. The ATP Wave 44 asked questions about religious knowledge. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults living in households in the United States. On behalf of the Pew Research Center, Ipsos Public Affairs ('Ipsos') conducted the 46th wave of the panel from March 18 to April 1, 2019. In total, 6,364 ATP members (both English- and Spanish-language survey-takers) completed the Wave 46 survey. Survey weights were provided for the total responding sample. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is +/- 1.66 percentage points. The ATP Wave 46 asked questions about religious trust. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults in the United States living in households. Adults who use the internet participate in the panel via self-administered web surveys, and adults who do not use the internet participate via computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) or mail. The sixth wave of the panel survey was fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt SRBI from Aug. 11 through Sept. 3, 2014. In total, 3,278 ATP members completed the survey, with 2,923 participating by web and 355 participating by mail. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. Survey weights are provided to account for differential probabilities of selection into the panel as well as differential nonresponse to the panel recruitment survey, the panel invitation, and the panel survey itself (Wave 6). The margin of sampling error for full sample weighted estimates is +/- 2.25 percentage points. The ATP Wave 6 asked questions about religion, science, and knowledge. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults living in households in the United States. On behalf of the Pew Research Center, Ipsos Public Affairs ('Ipsos') conducted the 61st wave of the panel from Feb. 4-15, 2020. In total, 6,395 ATP members (both English- and Spanish-language survey-takers) completed the Wave 61 survey. Survey weights were provided for the total responding sample. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is +/- 1.59 percentage points. The ATP Wave 61 asked questions about religion and public life. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based online panel of adults living in households in the United States. On behalf of the Pew Research Center, Ipsos Public Affairs (''Ipsos'') conducted the Wave 70 survey of the panel from July 13 to July 19, 2020. In total, 10,211 ATP members (both English and Spanish language survey-takers) completed the Wave 70 survey. Survey weights were provided for the total responding sample. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is +/- 1.5 percentage points. For the Wave 70 survey, special topics include religion in public life, social media's role in politics and society, and COVID-19 contact tracing. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish. The panel is being managed by Ipsos. [See More...]

The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish. The panel is being managed by Ipsos. [See More...]

The August 2011 Political Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,509 adults living in the continental United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=905) and cell phone (nC=604, including 268 without a landline phone). The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were conducted in English and Spanish by Princeton Data Source from Aug. 17-21, 2011. This survey contains questions on attitudes towards terrorism and Islam. [See More...]

The Campaign 2000 Typology Survey investigated Americans' opinions on a variety of topics, including the 2000 Presidential election and candidates, the major political parties, and various social groups. The survey also included a rich set of questions on religion and politics, covering topics such as whether churches and clergy should express political views and whether religious groups should receive government funding to provide social services. The data set features a 10-group Political Typology (variable 160) which sorts respondents into homogeneous groups based on their values, political beliefs, and party affiliation. [See More...]

This Pew Research Center survey examines the views of Americans on a variety of topics including the following: satisfaction with life ; feelings toward the country's future; different family arrangements; marriage as obsolete; satisfaction with life aspects; family life expectations; closeness with other family members; marriage affecting life goals; family trends affecting society; nuclear family importance ; family compared to growing up; closeness to spouse ; reasons for marriage; women caring for household; living together as a step toward marriage; household finances; desire for marriage; remarrying; desire for children; desired spousal traits; family definitions; financially supporting family; rating parental ability; balancing job and family; challenges for children; family dinners; Thanksgiving meal; obligation to provide assistance; one true love. The Princeton Survey Research Associates International performed the survey from October 1 through October 21, 2010. [See More...]

In order to explore the complex nature of religion among Latinos, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life collaborated on a set of public opinion surveys. Bilingual telephone interviewing for the Primary Survey was conducted from August 10, 2006 to October 4, 2006, and produced a nationally representative sample of 4,016 Latino respondents age 18 and older. The margin of error for this sample is 2.5% at the 95% confidence level. [See More...]

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press sponsored the nationally representative December 2006 Values Update Survey to gather public opinion on a variety of social issues. Specifically, this survey focuses on the public's opinions on Presidential and government performance, politics, economic issues, and domestic and foreign policy. [See More...]

Pew Research Center surveyed a total of 8,660 Black adults using a combination of four high-quality, probability-based samples: the Center's American Trends Panel, the Center's ABS survey, NORC's AmeriSpeak Panel, and Ipsos' KnowledgePanel. The study also featured multiple response modes: online, a paper version and live telephone. The combined analytic sample supports reliable analysis even of hard-to-reach segments within the Black American population. An additional 4,574 interviews were conducted with adults who are not Black to facilitate comparison with the full, U.S. adult population. [See More...]

Pew Research Center surveyed a total of 8,660 Black adults using a combination of four high-quality, probability-based samples: the Center's American Trends Panel, the Center's ABS survey, NORC's AmeriSpeak Panel, and Ipsos' KnowledgePanel. The study also featured multiple response modes: online, a paper version and live telephone. The combined analytic sample supports reliable analysis even of hard-to-reach segments within the Black American population. An additional 4,574 interviews were conducted with adults who are not Black to facilitate comparison with the full, U.S. adult population. [See More...]

The 2008 Conversion Recontact Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, is a follow-up to the 2007 "U.S. Religious Landscape Survey." One of the most striking findings from the Landscape Survey was the large number of people who have left their childhood faith. The Landscape Survey found that more than one in four American adults (28%) have changed their religious affiliation from that in which they were raised. This number includes people who have changed from one major religious tradition to another, for instance, from Protestantism to Catholicism or from Judaism to no religion. If change within religious traditions is included (e.g., from one Protestant denominational family to another), the survey found that roughly 44% of Americans now profess a religious affiliation different from that in which they were raised. [See More...]

Featuring an oversample of members of "Generation Next" (young adults ages 18-25), this Pew survey examines this generation's outlook, lifestyle, and politics. Respondents were asked to compare their own generation to others in several areas including opportunities, challenges, and lifestyle choices. Other topics covered include technology usage, news consumption, political attitudes and behavior, and personal aspirations. Religion variables include religious affiliation, church attendance, and the importance of spirituality. [See More...]

The Global Attitudes Project, Spring 2009, 25 Nation Survey is a cross-national survey of attitudes on global issues. Topics include politics, social issues, globalization, life satisfaction, and religion. Respondents also were surveyed on their views of the role of the United States in the world and on their impressions of well-known leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, etc.) [See More...]

The Global Attitudes Project, Spring 2010, 22 Nation Survey is a cross-national survey of attitudes on global issues. Topics include politics, social issues, globalization, life satisfaction, and religion. Respondents also were surveyed on their views of the role of the United States in the world and on their impressions of well-known leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, etc.) [See More...]

The Global Attitudes Project, Spring 2011, 23 Nation Survey is a cross-national survey of attitudes on global issues. Topics include politics, social issues, globalization, life satisfaction, and religion. Respondents also were surveyed on their views of the role of the United States in the world and on their impressions of well-known leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, etc.) [See More...]

The Global Attitudes Project, Spring 2012, 21 Nation Survey is a cross-national survey of attitudes on global issues. Topics include politics, social issues, globalization, life satisfaction, and religion. Respondents also were surveyed on their views of the role of the United States in the world and on their impressions of well-known leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, etc.) [See More...]

The Global Attitudes Project, Spring 2013, 39 Nation Survey is a cross-national survey of attitudes on global issues. Topics include politics, social issues, globalization, life satisfaction, and religion. Respondents also were surveyed on their views of the role of the United States in the world and on their impressions of well-known leaders (Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin, etc.). [See More...]

In December 2009, Pew Research Center released "Global Restrictions on Religion," the first in a series of annual reports on a data-coding project that seeks to measure levels of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion around the world. As of February 2015, Pew Research had published six reports on global restrictions on religion, analyzing a total of seven years' worth of data (the first two reports covered a total of three years, from 2007 to 2009). [...] In order to provide social science researchers and the general public with easier access to the data, Pew Research Center has released the full dataset. [See More...]

The January 2008 Political Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,515 adults living in continental United States telephone households. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research International. The interviews were conducted in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from January 9-13, 2008. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. The margin of sampling error for the complete set of weighted data is +/-2.9 percent. Topics include politics, policy, economic conditions, election 2008, issue priorities, U.S. elections/voters and George W. Bush. [See More...]

What does it mean to be Jewish in America? A new Pew Research Center survey finds that many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices - like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur - and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies, or reading Jewish news online. Among young Jewish adults, however, two sharply divergent expressions of Jewishness appear to be gaining ground - one involving religion deeply enmeshed in every aspect of life, and the other involving little or no religion at all. This file contains extended data and is one of three files. The other files contain household data and screening data. [See More...]

What does it mean to be Jewish in America? A new Pew Research Center survey finds that many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices - like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur - and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies, or reading Jewish news online. Among young Jewish adults, however, two sharply divergent expressions of Jewishness appear to be gaining ground - one involving religion deeply enmeshed in every aspect of life, and the other involving little or no religion at all. This file contains household data and is one of three files. The other files contain extended data and screening data. [See More...]

What does it mean to be Jewish in America? A new Pew Research Center survey finds that many Jewish Americans participate, at least occasionally, both in some traditional religious practices - like going to a synagogue or fasting on Yom Kippur - and in some Jewish cultural activities, like making potato latkes, watching Israeli movies, or reading Jewish news online. Among young Jewish adults, however, two sharply divergent expressions of Jewishness appear to be gaining ground - one involving religion deeply enmeshed in every aspect of life, and the other involving little or no religion at all. This file contains screening data and is one of three files. The other files contain household data and extended data. [See More...]

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press sponsored the nationally representative July 2003 Values Update Survey to gather public opinion on a variety of social issues. Specifically, this survey focuses on the public's opinions on Presidential and government performance, politics, economic issues, and domestic and foreign policy. [See More...]

The July 2011 Political and Media Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 1,501 adults living in the continental United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (n=916) and cell phone (n=585, including 254 without a landline phone). The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were conducted in English and Spanish by Princeton Data Source from July 20-24, 2011. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. The margin of sampling error for the complete set of weighted data is +/- 3.0 percentage points. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion, media, youth engagement, and issues related to terrorism in the post-9/11 environment. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced two reports. The first dealt with religion and attitudes toward Muslim Americans. The second report addressed the media's terrorism coverage. [See More...]

In 2007, the Pew Research Center conducted what is believed to be the first-ever national telephone survey of a probability sample of Muslim Americans, a rare, dispersed, and highly diverse population. The study examined the political and social values, religious beliefs and practices, and life experiences of Muslims living in the U.S. today. The survey also contrasts the views of the Muslim population as a whole with those of the U.S. general population, and with the attitudes of Muslims all around the world, including Western Europe. Finally, findings from the survey make important contributions to the debate over the total size of the Muslim American population. [See More...]

In 2007, the Pew Research Center conducted the first-ever nationwide survey of Muslim Americans. As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approached, it seemed an appropriate time to survey Muslim Americans again and take stock of any important changes in the attitudes, opinions and experiences of this growing segment of U.S. society. The 2011 survey repeats many key questions from the 2007 poll. It also closely follows the methodology of the previous survey, including the use of random-digit-dialing to screen a large number of households (more than 41,000) to obtain a representative national sample of Muslims. As in 2007, interviews were conducted not only in English but also in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi, helping to ensure coverage of parts of the heavily immigrant Muslim American population that could be missed by an English-only survey. [See More...]

This is the third national probability survey of American Muslims conducted by Pew Research Center (the first was conducted in 2007, the second in 2011). Results from this study were published in the Pew Research Center report 'U.S. Muslims Concerned About Their Place in Society, but Continue to Believe in the American Dream.' The report is included in the materials that accompany the public-use dataset. [See More...]

Ipsos conducted the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) for the Pew Research Center using address-based sampling and a push-to-web protocol. The survey was fielded June 1, 2020, to August 11, 2020. Participants were first mailed an invitation to complete an online survey. A paper survey was later mailed to a large subset (79%) of those who did not respond. In total, 1,862 respondents completed the survey online and 2,246 respondents completed the paper survey. The survey was administered in English and Spanish. [See More...]

The National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center. Respondents can answer either by paper or online, and they are selected using address-based sampling. The Pew Research Center uses NPORS to produce benchmark estimates for several topics, such as Americans' political and religious affiliations. [See More...]

Ipsos conducted the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) for the Pew Research Center using address-based sampling and a multimode protocol. The survey was fielded May 23, 2022, to Sep. 6, 2022. Participants were first mailed an invitation to complete an online survey. A paper survey was later mailed to those who did not respond. In total, 1,982 respondents completed the survey online, and 2,061 respondents completed the paper survey (Total N=4,043). The survey was administered in English and Spanish. The AAPOR Response Rate 1 was 29 percent. [See More...]

This survey investigates respondents' opinions concerning a variety of recent issues covered by news media, such as: the 2004 presidential election, the personal attributes and actions of John Kerry and President George W. Bush, news sources for the election, effects of recent tax cuts, and a possible Constitutional amendment on gay marriage. The survey also asks the extent to which respondents have followed recent topics in news media (i.e., Mel Gibson's film, Martha Stewart, Iraq, bombings in Madrid, etc.). [See More...]

This survey addresses respondents' opinions regarding various issues (especially homosexual issues and the situation in Iraq) recently in news media. Questions cover opinions and views regarding both gay marriage and civil unions and whether or not clergy at the respondents' religious congregation discuss issues such as: current elections, the situation in Iraq and laws regarding homosexuals. Respondents give open-ended responses about homosexuality, including whether or not they have a friend or acquaintance that is gay. Furthermore, this study investigates views on job availability, the effects of President George W. Bush's economic policies, and the situation in Iraq (e.g., media coverage and what should be done there). This survey also asks detailed questions regarding where the respondent gets national and international news and information (e.g., magazines, newspapers, radio, internet, TV, local news programming, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc.). [See More...]

This survey investigates respondents' opinions concerning a variety of issues in the news during the summer of 2005, such as the Supreme Court vacancy, the Iraq war, and Karl Rove. The survey also asks individuals their views on topics like abortion, stem cell research, and gay marriage. Several religion variables are included, such as attendance at religious services and religious affiliation. [See More...]

Over the years, numerous polls have gauged public attitudes toward Mormons, who make up about two percent of all U.S. adults. But what do Mormons themselves think about their place in American life? With the rising prominence of members of the LDS Church in politics, popular culture and the media, do Mormons feel more secure and accepted in American society? What do they think of other religions? What do they believe, how do they practice their faith and what do they see as essential to being a good Mormon and to leading a good life? [See More...]

This Pew Research Center survey is a nationally representative sample of U.S. teens and their parents. The data in this nationally representative sample was gathered using a self-administered web survey, and conducted among 1,811 dyads, with each dyad - or pair - comprised of one U.S. adolescent ages 13 to 17 and one parent per adolescent. The findings from this survey are detailed in the following reports, available on the Pew Research Center website: Report 1,Report 2. In addition to questions on religious practices, beliefs, and identity, this survey also asked teens a series of knowledge questions about the Holocaust, in order to compare adolescents and adults on knowledge of these topics. That report can also be found on the Pew Research Center website. [See More...]

This dataset is the centerpiece of Pew Research Center's 2014 Religious Landscape Study, a nationally representative telephone survey conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014, among a sample of 35,071 U.S. adults. Approximately 60 percent of the interviews were conducted with respondents reached on cellphones (n=21,160) and 40 percent were completed on landlines (n=13,911). A minimum of 300 interviews were conducted in every state and the District of Columbia. Interviewing was conducted in English and Spanish. The survey is estimated to cover 97 percent of the non-institutionalized U.S. adult population; 3 percent of U.S. adults are not reachable by telephone or do not speak English or Spanish well enough to participate in the survey. No adjustments have been made to the data to attempt to account for the small amount of non-coverage. [See More...]

The Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews 2013 is a comprehensive national survey of the Jewish population. The survey explores attitudes, beliefs, practices and experiences of Jews living in the United States. There are two datasets, a respondent dataset (where there is one row per respondent) and a household dataset (where there is one row per person in the sampled households). The respondent dataset includes all of the information collected as part of the survey. The household dataset is a reshaped version of the respondent dataset that includes a limited number of variables describing the demographic characteristics and Jewish status of all of the people in the surveyed households. [See More...]

The Pew Research Center Survey of U.S. Jews 2013, is a comprehensive national survey of the Jewish population. The survey explores attitudes, beliefs, practices and experiences of Jews living in the United States. There are two datasets, a respondent dataset (where there is one row per respondent) and a household dataset (where there is one row per person in the sampled households). The respondent dataset includes all of the information collected as part of the survey. The household dataset is a reshaped version of the respondent dataset that includes a limited number of variables describing the demographic characteristics and Jewish status of all of the people in the surveyed households. [See More...]

Between Oct. 14, 2014, and May 21, 2015, Pew Research Center, with generous funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Neubauer Family Foundation, completed 5,601 face-to-face interviews with non-institutionalized adults ages 18 and older living in Israel. [See More...]

The 2014 Pew Political Typology Survey, fielded for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press by Abt SRBI, completed telephone interviews with a representative sample of 10,013 adults living in the United States (5,010 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 5,003 were interviewed on a cell phone). Data collection was divided equally into three phases (A, B, and C) with non-overlapping field dates. Each third of the interviews was essentially treated as a separate study with separate samples, field dates, weighting and questionnaires, although some questions were asked throughout all three phases. [See More...]

This dataset tests two questions (FAVAPLFD and HIRESHAR) from the project, Faith-Based Funding Backed, But Church-State Doubts Abound (2001). This study looked at the public's attitudes on funding for faith-based organizations. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and examined religion and culture, politics, and American life. The original survey, Religion and Public Life Survey, 2001 can be found in the ARDA Data Archive. [See More...]

This data file contains four national surveys completed between July 1994 and October 1995. Commissioned by The Pew Center for The People and The Press and conducted by the Princeton Survey Research Associates, the four surveys focus exclusively on religion and politics in America. Because many of the questions were repeated in two or more of the surveys, it is possible to trace changing public opinion over time. [See More...]

This survey, commissioned by The Pew Center for the People and the Press, focuses exclusively on religion and politics in America. The national survey was completed by the Princeton Survey Research Associates between May 31 and June 9, 1996. [See More...]

The January 2016 Political Survey, fielded for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press by Abt SRBI, obtained telephone interviews with a representative sample of 2,009 adults living in the United States (504 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone and 1,505 were interviewed on a cell phone). Interviewing was conducted from January 7th to 14th, 2016 in English and Spanish. Samples were drawn from both the landline and cell phone RDD frames. Persons with residential landlines were not screened out of the cell phone sample. Both the landline and cell phone samples were provided by Survey Sampling International. The combined sample is weighted to match demographic parameters from the American Community Survey and telephone status parameters from the National Health Interview Survey. The weighting procedure also accounts for the fact that respondents with both a landline and cell phone had a greater probability of selection. The margin of sampling error for weighted estimates based on the full sample is +/- 2.46 percentage points. [See More...]

The November 2011 Religion and Politics Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,001 adults living in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. The survey focused on Americans' views of Barack Obama and the major Republican presidential candidates. Items also included views on global warming, the death penalty, abortion, and Mormonism, as well as several measures of respondents' religious and political preferences and behavior. [See More...]

The September 2014 Religion Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,002 adults living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=801) and cell phone (nC=1,201; including 682 without a landline phone). The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were administered in English and Spanish by Princeton Data Source from Sept. 2-9, 2014. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. The survey focused on Americans' views of Barack Obama, as well as how the Democratic and Republican parties have handled different issues. Measures included views on same-sex marriage, terrorism, abortion, healthcare and other policies, as well as several measures of respondents' religious and political preferences and behavior. [See More...]

According to the report Faith-Based Funding Backed, But Church-State Doubts Abound (2001), the project investigated the public's attitudes on funding for faith-based organizations. The survey was commissioned by The Pew Center for the People and the Press and looked at religion and culture, politics, and American life. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced two reports. The first report addressed America's struggle with religion in the post 9-11 climate. The second report examined the public's attitudes about genetic research. [See More...]

"Religion is a critical factor these days in the public's thinking about contentious policy issues and political matters. An increasing number of Americans have come to view Islam as a religion that encourages violence while a declining number say Islam has a lot in common with their own religion. The public remains divided over whether churches should stay out of politics, even as large numbers say they are comfortable with expressions of faith by political leaders. There also is evidence that next year's presidential vote may again provoke deep religious divisions over social issues, especially homosexual marriage" (Pew Forum). This survey was conducted by The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. [See More...]

This survey investigates respondents' opinions concerning a variety of recent issues covered by news media, such as anticipated votes in the 2004 presidential election, foreign policy attitudes, and especially the personal attributes and actions of John Kerry and President George W. Bush. The survey also asks the extent to which respondents have followed recent topics in news media, including, but not limited to: Iraq, terrorism, the Democratic convention, the price of gasoline, the "code orange" alert, abortion, the federal budget deficit, energy, health care, stem cell research, education, the environment, respect for America, and the 9-11 Commission. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. This survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced three reports with the following titles: "Religion A Strength And Weakness For Both Parties," "Abortion and Rights of Terror Suspects Top Court Issues", and "Views of Muslim-Americans Hold Steady After London Bombings." This survey asked questions on a variety of topics including: evolution, contrasting political party images, promoting democracy, faith-based aid, stem cell research, euthanasia, gays in the military, global conflict, support for Israel, and many other topics. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. This survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced two reports. The first is titled "Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues," and the second is titled "Many Americans Uneasy with Mix of Religion and Politics." This survey asked questions on a variety of topics including: church and state, evolution, global warming, political parties and religion, Biblical prophecy and Israel, abortion, birth control, stem cell research, gay marriage and adoption, and many other topics. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. This survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced two reports. The first is titled "Clinton and Giuliani Seen as Not Highly Religious; Romney's Religion Raises Concerns", and the second is titled "Public Expresses Mixed Views of Islam, Mormonism". This survey asked questions on a variety of topics including: public leaders and religion, political parties and religion, abortion, stem cell research, universal health care, the death penalty, gay marriage, attitudes towards religious groups, attitudes towards Muslims and Mormons, and many other topics. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. This survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced two reports. The first report is titled "GOP Base Getting Behind McCain: The Presidential Race Draws Even," and the second report is titled "Some Social Conservative Disillusionment: More Americans Question Religion's Role in Politics." Many of the questions in this survey investigated views on the 2008 presidential election and probed the dynamics of support for John McCain and Barack Obama. In addition, this survey asked questions on a variety of topics including: public leaders and religion, political parties and religion, government funding for religious social services, universal health care, abortion, gay marriage, attitudes towards religious groups, and other topics. [See More...]

This project investigated the public's attitudes on religion and public life. Interviewers asked questions on a variety of topics, including political views, attitudes towards different religions, religious discrimination and government funding of religious social service program. [See More...]

The survey is a joint effort of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Conducted in July and August of 2010, it examined Americans' attitudes toward a wide range of topics related to religion and public life. Special topics included Barack Obama's religion, the religious right and left, the Tea Party movement, immigration, same-sex marriage, and the influence of religion in politics. The survey also contained a range of items on respondents' religious and political preferences and behavior. [See More...]

The July 2012 Religion & Public Life Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 3,484 adults living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (N=1,992) and cell phone (N=1,492; including 774 without a landline phone). The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The interviews were administered in English and Spanish by Princeton Data Source and Universal Survey Center from June 28 to July 10, 2012. Weights are provided to correct known demographic discrepancies. [See More...]

Between October 2013 and February 2014, Pew Research Center, with generous funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation, conducted a public opinion survey involving more than 30,000 face-to-face interviews in 19 countries and territories across Latin America and the Caribbean. This survey covers religious affiliations, beliefs, practices, social and political views in 18 countries and the U.S. territory (Puerto Rico). The survey was carried out as part of the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures project, which analyzes religious change and its impact on societies around the world. [See More...]

This multi-country survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys were conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample in each country. [See More...]

This file of respondents in Brazil is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in Brazil were conducted by the research firm, Research International Brazil, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in Chile is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in Chile were conducted by the research firm, MORI Chile, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in the chosen regions of India is part of a multi-country survey. This project in India includes a probability sample of disproportionately Christian districts of three states of India- Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Meghalaya. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in the chosen regions of India were conducted by the research firm TNS India, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. Note that this is not a representative sample of India. [See More...]

This file of respondents in Guatemala is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., pentecostals and charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in Guatemala were conducted by the research firm MERCAPLAN, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in Kenya is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in Kenya were conducted by the research firm, Research Path Associates, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in Nigeria is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in Nigeria were conducted by Research International Nigeria under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in South Africa is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in South Africa were conducted by the research firm Markinor, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in South Korea is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in South Korea were conducted by the research firm Gallup Korea, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in the Philippines is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in the Philippines were conducted by the research firm TNS Philippines, under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

This file of respondents in the United States is part of a multi-country survey. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to investigate the religious, political, and civic views of renewalists (i.e., Pentecostals and Charismatics) around the world. An aggregate file of all ten nations of this multi-country survey is available at the ARDA. The project includes surveys in ten countries with sizeable renewalist populations: the United States; Brazil, Chile and Guatemala in Latin America; Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in Africa; and India, the Philippines and South Korea in Asia. In each country, surveys were conducted among a random sample of the general public, with an oversample of renewalists, to yield sufficient sample sizes for analysis. Surveys in the United States were conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The codebook reflects the results of the general public sample. [See More...]

"The vast majority of people in many sub-Saharan African nations are deeply committed to the practices and major tenets of one or the other of the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Large majorities say they belong to one of these faiths, and, in sharp contrast with Europe and the United States, very few people are religiously unaffiliated. Despite the dominance of Christianity and Islam, traditional African religious beliefs and practices have not disappeared. Rather, they coexist with Islam and Christianity. Whether or not this entails some theological tension, it is a reality in people's lives: Large numbers of Africans actively participate in Christianity or Islam yet also believe in witchcraft, evil spirits, sacrifices to ancestors, traditional religious healers, reincarnation and other elements of traditional African religions." [See More...]

This 2013 survey examines views on and experience with end-of-life decisions, aging and quality of life in older age, medical advances and radical life extension, among other topics. It was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and produced multiple reports. [See More...]

The 2015 Survey of U.S. Catholics and Family Life is a nationally representative survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. It was administered by telephone (landline and cellphones) to a sample of 5,122 adult respondents of any religion. It covers an array of topics, including attitudes toward prominent figures, opinions on different kinds of romantic relationship, climate change, religion, and Catholicism in particular. [See More...]

This survey investigated Americans' opinions on end-of-life issues including euthanasia, decisions over stoppage of treatment, wills, and more. Religious variables include religious affiliation, church attendance, subjective importance of religion, and whether clergy at respondents' churches speak out on public issues, including end-of-life issues. The survey was commissioned by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. [See More...]

The values study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an effort to better understand the nature of American politics by tracking a broad range of beliefs and values that shape public opinion and ultimately influence voting behavior. The project began in 1987, and has been updated 13 times over the past 22 years. The values study asks respondents whether they agree or disagree with a series of approximately eighty statements covering core beliefs about government, business, religion and several other topics. [See More...]

In his 2007 book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't, Boston University professor Stephen Prothero wrote that "Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion." To support his contention, Prothero offered many compelling anecdotes and some isolated findings from public opinion polls. He also cited a few studies about the extent of biblical literacy among young people. But, as he discovered, there was no comprehensive, national survey assessing the general state of religious knowledge among U.S. adults. [See More...]

The Alaska and Hawaii Supplement to the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey obtained telephone interviews with representative samples of 200 adults living in Alaska and 201 adults living in Hawaii. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research International. Interviews were done in English by Princeton Data Source, LLC from March 13 to March 30, 2008. Statistical results are weighted to correct known demographic discrepancies. The margin of sampling error is +/- 7.5 percentage points for results based on Alaska respondents and +/- 8.5 percentage points for results based on Hawaii respondents. [See More...]

The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey completed telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 35,556 adults living in continental United States households. The survey was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International (PSRAI). This extensive survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public. [See More...]

The values project draws on a series of large national surveys conducted since 1987. The project was initiated by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press in 1987 and continued by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press since 1996. Over this period, 15 surveys have been conducted with a total of 35,578 interviews. In the 2012 survey, interviews included 79 questions about political and social values, plus questions about current issues and political figures. Surveys since 2003 include interviews conducted in English and Spanish. Religious questions include prayer importance, beliefs of Judgment Day and religious doubt. [See More...]

"Between October 2011 and November 2012, Pew Research Center, with generous funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John Templeton Foundation, conducted a public opinion survey involving more than 30,000 face-to-face interviews in 26 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The survey asked people to describe their religious beliefs and practices, and sought to gauge respondents; knowledge of and attitudes toward other faiths. It aimed to assess levels of political and economic satisfaction, concerns about crime, corruption and extremism, positions on issues such as abortion and polygamy, and views of democracy, religious law and the place of women in society. [See More...]