Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Many of the Catholics who will be visiting their churches today, Ash Wednesday, to have their foreheads marked with ashen crosses, will be over age 65, a reflection of the fact that older Catholics are considerably more likely than their younger co-religionists to say they attend worship services regularly.
While most Americans say they have friends of a different race, pluralities of whites, blacks and Hispanics say they only have a few.
Two-thirds of those ages 33 to 44 do their banking online and 80% have gone shopping on the internet.
Rush Limbaugh has the most conservative audience of any network or program tested by Pew Research.
Nearly four-in-ten voters identify themselves as Democrats.
Among adults who have lived in multiple communities, four-in-ten say home is not where they currently live.
Three-in-ten Americans say belief is the key factor in achieving eternal life; about the same proportion view actions as the primary factor (29%).
One-in-five Hispanics who voted in last November’s election were first-time voters.
One-in-five Americans have had trouble paying their rent or mortgage in the past year.
More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than Starbucks.
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