Pew Research Center Staff

About one-third of the countries in the world — 64 nations — have high or very high restrictions on religion.

15% of cell-owning teens ages 12-17 say they have received sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude images of someone they know via text messaging.

17% of teens who pay for all of the costs associated with their cell phones send sexually suggestive images via text.

By roughly two-to-one, more say they have a generally negative rather than a generally positive impression of the 2000s.

As Americans begin a new year, nearly six-in-ten say this decade will be better than the last 10 years.

Some parents may be spending more than just the holidays with their grown children as 13% say one of their adult sons or daughters has moved back home.

Compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, Russians are far less concerned about the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.

Just 3% of health care opponents cite abortion funding as their main reason for opposing legislation.

Given a list of 14 programs, for only two are more than 20% of Americans in favor of decreasing government spending.

About one-in-five Americans say the Democratic Party is unfriendly to religion.