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Overview
The Portrait of Americal Life Study (PALS) is an unprecedented panel study focused on religion in the U.S., with a particular focus on capturing ethnic and racial diversity. Features include:
• Survey conducted in 2006 and 2012
• Over 1300 interviews conducted with the same people
• Random sample of the American adult population
• Over 600 variables covering a broad range of topics
• Interviews averaged 75 minutes in length
• Timely issues.
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Results & Summaries
This easy to use Codebook allows users to view over 600 variables as grouped in 31 different modules. Features include:
• Complete wording of the interview questions
• Summaries of the number of times each response was given
• Comparisons of two variables
• Graphical depictions with pie and bar charts
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Researchers
For researchers interested in going beyond the summaries, more extensive data and documentation is available for their reference. Features include:
• Public data downloading
• Restricted-use data policy
• Documentation
• Sampling and Data Collection Methodology
• Publications
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Religious Leaders
With a special emphasis to support Religious Leaders, this section provides findings and statistics for about a dozen topics. Features include:
• Tables and charts
• Discussion of the findings
• Invitation to comment about the findings and their implications
• Resources
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Press & Media
For members of the Press & Media, we want to support their efforts to uncover trends in American society, especially those connections between religious change and other forms of change among diverse people. Features include:
• Research team
• Who to contact