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Pew Research Center makes the case-level microdata for much of its research available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. These datasets are listed below by collection date. A listing of our American Trends Panel datasets and religion datasets are also available. See this post for more information on how to use our datasets and contact us at info@pewresearch.org with any questions.
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NPORS is a survey of U.S. adults. We use an address-based sample frame and invite sampled addresses by mail. Respondents complete the survey by phone, mail, or web. Learn more about how the Center uses NPORS. This download contains case-level survey microdata and may include supporting documentation such as: RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center. 2025. “2025 […]
25-country public survey conducted from January 8 to April 26, 2025.
This Pew Research Center study is a collection of data on government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in 198 countries and territories from 2007 to 2022, collected by human coding of more than a dozen publicly available, widely cited sources of information, including the U.S. Department of State’s annual reports on international […]
35-country survey conducted from January 5 to May 22, 2024
Field dates: Feb. 5 – June 18, 2025
This dataset provides estimates of the number of people of all ages in seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other religions and those who are religiously unaffiliated. The “other religions” category includes Baha’is, Daoists (also spelled Taoists), Jains, Shintoists, Sikhs, Wiccans, Zoroastrians and many small groups, some of which can […]
Download the public-use file (PUF) dataset for the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), which provides estimates of the U.S. population’s religious composition, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.
Field dates: Feb. 3 – 9, 2025 Topics: Survey of American Catholics