From police to parole, black and white Americans differ widely in their views of criminal justice system
Attitudes vary considerably by race on issues including crime, policing, the death penalty, parole decisions and voting rights.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Attitudes vary considerably by race on issues including crime, policing, the death penalty, parole decisions and voting rights.
when designing an online survey questionnaire, there is more than one way to ask a respondent to select which options in a series applies to them.
Blacks have long outnumbered whites in U.S. prisons. But a significant decline in the number of black prisoners has narrowed the gap.
No world region has reached gender parity in the share of legislative seats held by women. Only three nations individually have reached or surpassed parity.
More than a third of the states that allow executions haven’t carried one out in at least 10 years or, in some cases, much longer.
Nick Bertoni, manager of the American Trends Panel, explains how the panel works and what its recent expansion means for our future survey work.
Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) is now the Center’s principal source of data for U.S. public opinion research.
Response rates to telephone public opinion polls conducted by Pew Research Center have resumed their decline, to 7% in 2017 and 6% in 2018.
What does the migration to online polling mean for the country’s trove of public opinion data gathered over the past four decades?
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.