khhuang/chartve_dataset huggingface dataset:
Majorities in all Western European countries surveyed in 2008 except Spain said they were very or fairly concerned that their country had become too dependent on Russia for its energy resources: Roughly six-in-ten or more among British (67%), German (62%) and French (58%) publics expressed concern; the Spanish public was evenly split on this issue (46% concerned, 47% not concerned).
More than half in Poland (58%) and the Czech Republic (54%) offered critical opinions of Russia.
Majorities in France (65%), Germany (62%), and Sweden (59%) expressed an unfavorable view of Russia.
And ratings of Russia were even worse among Western European publics.
Youth unemployment rate, while remaining increasing slightly to less than 0.12% is generally stable.
The unemployment rate in Malaysia for individuals aged 15-24 is at the highest it has been since 2011.
Discussions about having kids often focus on women’s desires and concerns.
But the survey found that about half of men ages 15 to 44 who don’t have kids express at least some concern about going through life without the experience of being a father.
By comparison, almost seven-in-ten childless women say the same.
However, despite those mixed views and the hardships veterans have endured in the service and in their re-entry into civilian life, they have positive views of their experience.
Even so, in a Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2011, only one-third (34%) of these recent veterans said that both wars have been worth fighting; nearly as many (33%) said neither conflict had been worth the costs.
Veterans who have served in the post-9/11 era have a more positive view than the general public about the overall worth of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the tactics the military has used to wage them.
Moreover, Tancer’s review of the top search terms sending traffic to WebMd for the week ending May 2, 2009, shows that queries relating to swine flu symptoms are the most common on the list.
Goggle Trends show no surge in searches for popular privately run health information websites such as WebMd.
But frequent users of such sites are likely to access them directly.
And a Hitwise analysis shows that while most of these health-information websites show no clear uptick in visits as concern about the swine flu peaked, WebMd, the most popular of the group, showed a sharp increase in the frequency of visits.
Still, the overall negativity on Twitter over the course of the campaign stood out.
In nearly every week from early September through the first week of November, the Twitter conversation about Romney was substantially more negative than the conversation about Obama.
This tilt to the Twitter conversation was evident throughout the fall campaign.
But from September through November, Romney was consistently the target of more negative reactions than was Obama.
For both candidates, negative comments exceeded positive comments by a wide margin throughout the fall campaign season.
It has remained at about that level since then.
Opinion about whether to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq has remained stable for most of this year.
In mid-January, following Bush’s speech announcing the surge, there was a modest decline in support for a troop withdrawal; 48% supported bringing the troops home as soon as possible, down five points from a survey conducted earlier in the month (53%).
But the proportion favoring a troop withdrawal rebounded to 53% in February.
Currently, 54% support a troop withdrawal, which is virtually unchanged from measures dating back to February.
The number of refugees entering the United States each month has declined sharply so far in fiscal 2017, falling from 9,945 in October 2016 to 3,316 in April 2017, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. State Department data.
Nationwide, the number of refugee arrivals decreased in each of the first five months of the fiscal year, the longest consecutive monthly decline on record (monthly data before 2000 are not available).
All but four states reported declines in monthly arrivals.
In April, however, the number of arriving refugees rose to 3,316, compared with 2,070 in March.
For news, 41% of online news hounds say they always find what they want on the Net.
Most of the time searchers in these categories find what they want—more than 70% in all categories.
In looking at how successful Internet users have been in finding the information they need online, the following chart shows how Internet users fare when they go online to satisfy information needs.
For example, roughly a third of Catholics who attend Mass weekly (34%) say children being raised by a same-sex couple is acceptable and as good as any other arrangement, which is similar to the share who see this as unacceptable (36%).
Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly are more likely than other Catholics to have opinions that align with church policies and teachings.
But even among frequent churchgoers, majorities are open to non-traditional family arrangements.
The average audience for the evening newscasts for ABC, CBS and NBC remained relatively stable in 2018, with 5.3 million viewers tuning in on average, compared with 5.2 million in 2017, according to Comscore TV Essentials® data.
(Average audience is defined as the average number of TVs tuned to a program throughout a time period.)
In February, 64% approved of his job performance while just 17% disapproved.
Obama’s job approval rating has been relatively stable over recent months, though the percentage disapproving has edged up four points, from 36% in November to 40% in the current survey.
Over the course of the year, Obama’s approval rating has declined substantially.
Obama’s job approval rating first fell below 60% in July and in recent months has remained at around 50%.
A 49% plurality of the public approves of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, while 40% disapprove.
Obama also receives higher marks than McCain in the other two European Union countries included on the survey, Spain and Poland.
The numbers are almost identical in Germany (82% confidence in Obama, 33% in McCain).
In France, 84% of those following the U.S. presidential race say they have confidence in Obama to do the right thing in world affairs; only a third, however, are confident in McCain.
The gap between the two candidates is slightly less pronounced in Britain, although it is still a staggering 30 percentage points — 74% have confidence in Obama, 44% in McCain.
Obama’s travel itinerary will take him to three European countries where he is extremely popular: France, Germany and Britain.
The weekly News Interest Index survey was being conducted when the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson occurred.
Before the rampage, Americans said they were tracking news about the economy most closely, but in the survey’s fourth and final day – the Sunday following the horrific events in Arizona – 34% said they were following news about the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords most closely, double the 17% that said they were following news about the economy most closely.
Adults under 30 were also less likely than people in older age groups to say it was very important to pay all the taxes you owe, serve on a jury if called and participate in the census every decade.
Relatively few adults under 30 said it was very important to know the Pledge of Allegiance (38%) or display the American flag (19%).
The Ford granada had the least guests recorded for the same time period.
Mitsubishi and Nissan had the highest theft rates recorded and totalled over 50% of all thefts that year.
The mitsubishi pajero had the most thefts record for the period stated above.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, while not very well known among GOP voters, is rated positively (33% favorable, 13% unfavorable).
About half (47%) of Republican voters also rate Chris Christie positively, yet unfavorable opinions of the New Jersey governor (at 30%) are higher than for Ryan, Paul or Rubio.
Overall, 42% agree with the Democratic Party’s policies on abortion either strongly (28%) or somewhat (15%).
A smaller share (32%) says they strongly (21%) or somewhat (11%) agree with the policies of the GOP.
About a quarter (24%) says they don’t agree with either party on this issue.
A majority of the Greeks (68%) and pluralities of the Dutch (44%), Germans (43%), Italians (39%) and French (39%) all want some EU power returned to their national governments.
Both the Dutch and the French have a history of holding referendums on major and not-so-major issues, and Euroskeptic parties in both countries have already voiced support for a public vote on their relationship with the EU.
The debate in other EU member states about the future of the institution may just be getting started.
Since 2016 the share has dropped down to its lowest level.
The share of population at risk of poverty peaked in2012 and 2016.
This chart shows that the total consumption of chocolate and cocoa products in Spanish households increased in 2014.
during 2008 - 2012 the total consumption increases steadily with a rapid increase until 2014 where it starts to go into a downward trend with the occasional small rise.
The downward trend is still higher than the number from 2008.
The chart then shows that the figures almost plateau until 2019.
Youth unemployment in Lesotho has been decreasing overall between 1999 and 2020.
There has been an almost 40% decline in youth unemployment during this time.
In January 2016, 63.4% of employed Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1998, reported that they had worked for their current employer at least 13 months.
In February 2000, somewhat fewer 18- to 35-year-olds (59.9%) – most of whom are today’s Gen Xers – reported similar job tenure.
And among the college-educated, Millennials have longer track records with their employers than Generation X workers did in 2000 when they were the same age as today’s Millennials.
Looking at young workers with longer tenures, 22% of Millennial workers had been with their employer for at least five years as of 2016, similar to the share of Gen X workers (21.8%) in 2000.
Millennial workers, those ages 18 to 35, are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults, according to recently released government data.
BMW, Honda and Yamaha were the top 3 motor cycle brands with the highest motorcycle sales in Belgium between 3,000-3,500 sales.
SYM, Suzuki and Triumph were amongst the bottom 3 motor cycle brands with the least amount of sales ranging between 500-1,000 sales.
In 31 nations, drought is a top worry.
Drought tops the list of climate change concerns.
We read respondents a list of four potential effects of global warming, and asked which one concerns them the most: droughts or water shortages; severe weather, such as floods or intense storms; long periods of unusually hot weather; or rising sea levels.
Fully half of Americans name drought as their chief climate change concern, and this is especially true in drought-plagued Western states compared with other regions of the country.
About seven-in-ten Black, Hispanic and Asian users say social media are at least somewhat effective for changing people’s minds about political or social issues, compared with half of White users who say the same.
As to whether social media are seen as very or somewhat effective for creating sustained social movements, Black and Hispanic users (82% for both) are more likely to say this than White Americans (76%) who use these sites.
These views generally hold true when influencing policy decisions and getting elected officials to pay attention to issues are considered.
In most cases, Black, Hispanic and Asian American users stand out from White users in how effective they think social media are at achieving some social and political aims.
Some 77% of Asian Americans who use social media say these sites are at least somewhat effective for this aim.
In contrast, the size of vote share projections had no detectable effect on voting in the game.
Before each round, respondents saw probabilistic forecasts and vote share projections for their team.
Sometimes these numbers were closer to 50-50, sometimes they depicted large margins or high odds.
The exact numbers were selected based on random assignment, though both vote share and probability for a team had to be either below or above 50% – for example, a team might be assigned a projected 56% of the vote and a 63% chance of winning.
Results showed that probabilistic forecasts with higher odds of one candidate winning resulted in people not expending resources necessary to cast a vote in the game.
About two-in-ten (22%) of the public say they very closely followed news about proposals for stricter regulation of banks and financial institutions; 4% say they followed this news most closely.
The debate over new financial regulations accounted for 5% of coverage.
Just 7% very closely followed news about the government crackdown on protesters in Thailand.
This story accounted for 2% of coverage.
France had the highest commercial vehicle sales followed closely by the UK and Germany.
Denmark, Portugal, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Belgium had really low sales.
A quarter (25%) say that their personal views have changed as they have thought about the issue or simply because they have grown older.
When those who say they have shifted to supporting same-sex marriage are asked why their views changed, people offer a range of answers.
The same percentage (18%) say they changed their minds because they think people should be free to choose what makes them happy and that they no longer think the government should be involved in people’s personal lives in this way.
About one-in-five (18%) say they changed their minds to support gay marriage because the world has changed and that this kind of shift is inevitable.
Roughly a third (32%) say it is because they know someone – a friend, family member or other acquaintance – who is homosexual.
A large majority of Filipinos (86%) hold a favorable opinion of Duterte, with 41% holding a very favorable opinion of the president.
Only 12% of Filipinos have an unfavorable view of Duterte.
From the beginning of 2003 through the middle of 2006, remittance receipts showed annual increases averaging 26.5%, measured on a quarterly basis.
Since mid-2006, the rate of annual growth has averaged 6.5%; in the first quarter of 2007 it was 3.4%.
After rising steadily and substantially for several years, the growth in remittances sent to Mexico began slackening notably in mid-2006 and the rate of growth slowed through the first quarter of 2007.
The most valuable brand is nearly as valuable as the next 2 combined.
Most of the brands are valued under 30 Billion Euros.
But, also consider: It is one thing to get married, it is another thing to stay married.
In spite of the recent uptick in newlyweds since 2011, it is still the case that fewer adults were currently married in 2012 (50.5%) than in 2011 (50.8%).
The share of adults presently married peaked around 72% in 1960.
Still, there was fairly consistent interest in them and there was a notable segment of population – a quarter or more of respondents – who said they would definitely use each of the activities we queried and most times more than half the public said it was at least somewhat likely to take advantage of these new services.
Many of those who responded to this battery of questions picked different types of services that they would prefer – in other words, there was only modest share of respondents who said they would “very likely” use each and every one of the news services that we queried.
There was no overwhelming public clamor for any of the activities.
The results were mixed in several senses.
Views on this question are about the same as they were last fall.
Most U.S. adults think human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, contributes a great deal (49%) or some (32%) to climate change.
About two-in-ten (19%) say human activity contributes not too much or not at all to climate change.
White and Hispanic Catholics express similar views of Biden’s religiousness, but Democratic Catholics (72%) are far more likely than Republican Catholics (46%) to say that he is at least somewhat religious.
Overall, around six-in-ten Catholics (59%) say they think Biden is “very” or “somewhat” religious, according to a February 2020 survey.
Partisanship colors Catholics’ perceptions of how religious Trump and Biden are.
No real trend or pattern to chart.
Up and down peaking at 90 and going no lower than 60.
And while most post-Millennials are still pursuing their K-12 education, the oldest members of this generation are enrolling in college at a significantly higher rate than Millennials were at a comparable age.
Post-Millennials – today’s 6- to 21-year-olds, also known as Generation Z – are on track to be the most racially and ethnically diverse generation yet.
A bare majority of post-Millennials are non-Hispanic white (52%), while a quarter are Hispanic.
Year on year there is a trend upwards of the amount ischemic heart disease deaths from 85000 to over 110000.
Among the nation’s 10.4 million unauthorized adults, a shrinking share have been in the country for less than five years—15% in 2012, compared with 38% in 2000.
About a fifth (21%) had been in the U.S. for two decades or more as of 2012.
A rising share have lived in the U.S. for a decade or more—62% in 2012, compared with 35% in 2000.
By 2015 the sales have only went back up to 6.
The sale of luggage locks falls quite dramatically from 11 to 6 between 2003 & 2004.
The sales do have some upward trends but never recover to the same as the highest value in 2003.
Atmos energy had the highest in 2020.
All investor- owned utilities had a high customer satisfaction score.
Other parts of the day look no better.
There’s more to the story, of course.
Though ratings have improved in recent months, CNN’s morning programming ranked third in viewership in 2012, averaging just 239,000 viewers per day, compared with 452,000 for MSNBC’s Morning Joe and 1.13 million for Fox’s Fox and Friends, according to Nielsen Media Research.
And in May, the channel’s previous morning show, Starting Point, averaged 380,000 viewers, according to Nielsen—not enough to come close to Fox and Friends’ 1.26 million, but enough to approach MSNBC’s Morning Joe, which drew an average of 387,000.
In 2012, it fell to third place in daytime viewership for the first time.
CNN remains a highly profitable organization, with a wide digital reach and a sizable international presence; it operates more bureaus around the world than Fox and MSNBC combined.
Continued declines in prime-time viewership, considered the most critical time for cable news, placed the channel third behind Fox and MSNBC for three years straight.
Since the recession, perceptions of the job market have become less negative as the unemployment rate has declined.
However, there has been virtually no change in these views since last June (64% jobs hard to find), although the jobless rate has fallen by more than a percentage point (from 7.5% to 6.3%) since then.
The survey was conducted before Friday’s jobs report, which showed that the unemployment rate had fallen to 6.3%, its lowest level since 2008, and that the economy had added 288,000 jobs.
However, more than 800,000 people left the labor force.
From the public’s point of view, jobs remain scarce: 65% say jobs in their community are difficult to find while 27% say there are plenty of jobs available.
Economic Pessimism Persists.
Annual revenue in Canada is consistently growing since 2010.
With a slight dip around 2011/2012, there has been steady growth.
Nearly two-in-ten each (18%) say they very closely followed news about Obama releasing his long-form birth certificate or news about continuing unrest in the Middle East.
News out of the Middle East accounted for 6% coverage, most focusing on the situation in Syria, according to PEJ.
About one-in-ten say the birth certificate news (8%) or Middle East developments (8%) was their top story of the week.
They will account for 13.3% of all eligible voters.
This year, Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnic minority in a U.S. presidential election, with a record 32 million projected to be eligible to vote.
(Explore our interactive maps and tables to see Latino eligible voters by state and congressional district.)
However, the number of Latino eligible voters is still far below the 60 million Latinos who live in the country.
They all earn over 30 million but less than 40.
It’s not a hugely disparate graph they are quite close in numbers.
It looks like they’ve all broken the 30 million barrier but are quite far from the 40 million.
The highest paid player is Mike trout.
There are 10 players.
Most of the players (5) earn around 35 million with 4 less than that and 1 more.
Iraq was the most closely followed story for 13% of the public.
The national media devoted 2% of its coverage to the war.
In other news, 28% of the public followed news about the Iraq war very closely (up slightly from 23% last week).
As a result, the unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell 0.6 percentage points during this period (from 9.3% to 8.7%), while for native-born workers it rose 0.5 percentage points (from 9.2% to 9.7%).
We found that in the year following the official end of the recession in June 2009, foreign-born workers, who make up 15.7% of the labor force, gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million.
The unemployment rate for native-born workers is up from 4.6% to 9.0% and for immigrants it is up from 4.5% to 9.9%.
In an October 2010 report, “After the Great Recession: Foreign Born Gain Jobs; Native Born Lose Jobs,” we focused on the period from the second quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2009 — when most of the job losses during the Great Recession occurred — and the period from the second quarter of 2009 to the second quarter of 2010 — the first year of recovery from the recession.
From the beginning of the recession in the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2010, native-born workers lost 6.1 million jobs, a drop of 4.9%, and foreign-born workers lost 262,000 jobs, or a drop of 1.2%.
But the jobs recovery has been far from complete for either group of workers.
Puerto Ricans, the nation’s second largest Hispanic origin group, make up just 9% of the total Hispanic population in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
No other Hispanic subgroup rivals the size of the Mexican-origin population.
Among the 50.7 million Hispanics in the United States, nearly two-thirds (65%), or 33 million, self-identify as being of Mexican origin, according to tabulations of the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS) by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
The New York Times asked several athletes to explain their tricks.)
Since the early 1990s, as The Economist chart above shows, Olympics organizers have steadily added more and more freestyle skiing, snowboarding and other X Games-style events in a bid to appeal to younger viewers.
At Sochi, according to the magazine, 20 of the 98 official events are “cool.” (Wondering what all those mid-air spins and flips are all about?
As unemployment rose from 7.5 % at the start of 1981 to more than 8.6% by January 1982, his job disapproval rating rose from 18% to 40% over this period.
Fortunately for Reagan, 1983 saw unemployment begin to decline.
By year’s end, his approval scores began to recover, setting the stage for his successful run for reelection in 1984.
By the end of 1982, unemployment stood at nearly 11% and 50% of the public was telling Gallup that it disapproved of how the president was handling his job.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the rise and fall of the unemployment rate more than any other factor shaped general public reaction to Reagan in his first term.
By contrast, Democrats hold mixed views of Netanyahu (28% favorable vs. 35% unfavorable); 37% have no opinion.
More than twice as many Republicans view Netanyahu favorably (53%) as unfavorably (21%); 26% have no opinion.
Independents’ opinions of Netanyahu mirror those of the overall public (38% favorable, 26% unfavorable, 36% no opinion).