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The share of Muslims who found suicide bombing as a justified means of defending Islam fell throughout the period from 2002 to 2008.
In Lebanon, 74% of Muslims considered suicide bombing as justified in 2002, but that percentage tumbled to 32% in 2008.
Pakistani support for suicide bombing plunged from 33% to 5%.
Amid all the mistrust and recriminations, the Pew surveys turned up a number of positive trends in Muslim public opinion, most notably a sharp decline in support for suicide bombing.
The charts shows that the main reason most people say for not having children is “not enough money / cost of raising children”.
New-york- northern jersey has the highest black or african population at 3,800.
Boston is also an outlier with around 250,000.
There are some outliers, such as New York with a very high percentage, almost 4 million.
The chart shows that on average the number of African Americans is around 1,000,000.
News stories about U.S. nuclear policy account for 6% of the newshole.
News about the golfer made up 5% of the newshole as measured by PEJ.
Reporting about Afghanistan made up 2% of coverage.
More than one-in-ten (13%) say they followed Woods’ return to play very closely, while 9% say this was the story they followed most closely.
About two-in-ten (21%) say they followed news about Afghanistan very closely, while 3% say this was the story they followed most closely.
About a quarter of the public (24%) says they very closely followed news about a series of developments in Obama’s push to place greater controls on the world’s nuclear weapons; 7% say this was the story they followed most closely.
Pluralities of independents and Democrats say the media and scientists are neutral to religion.
Republicans, evangelicals, black Protestants and weekly churchgoers also stand out compared with other groups for viewing scientists as unfriendly toward religion.
And almost half of weekly worship attenders say the media are unfriendly toward religion (46%), compared with 29% among those who attend religious services less often.
But majorities of Republicans (51%) and white evangelical Protestants (52%) in the survey say the news media are unfriendly toward religion.
Political and religious differences are somewhat less stark, but still apparent, in views of how friendly the media and scientists are toward religion.
While public attitudes toward individual leaders are mixed, Europeans express the most confidence in Germany’s Angela Merkel.
Views of French President Emmanuel Macron are more mixed, while Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban get generally negative reviews from people on the continent.
Across 14 EU countries, a median of 57% express confidence in Merkel’s ability to do the right thing regarding world affairs.
Trump supporters are less likely to say they have difficulty respecting Clinton voters.
Nearly six-in-ten Clinton supporters (58%) say they “have a hard time respecting someone who supports Donald Trump for president.” Just 40% say they have “no trouble” respecting someone who backs Trump.
Meanwhile, most Clinton supporters not only take a dim view of Trump, but say they have a hard time respecting the people who support the Republican nominee.
Four-in-ten (40%) say they have a hard time respecting Clinton voters, while 56% say they have no trouble doing so.
You can see that the most popular national park is the National Park and the least popular is the national reserve.
There is also a significant number of people who selected ‘Park (Other)’ as their response.
I can observe that in around 2015 was the highest age structure of all of the years and from that year on (2015) we see a continuous decline.
The percentage of People in Brasil using internet is increasing of 20% every 5 years.
But in Great Britain, a solid majority (62%) thought the banning of scarves was a bad idea.
A 2005 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey in the Netherlands found that 51% of the Dutch public favored banning head scarves in public.1 In Germany, 54% also supported a ban while in France an even larger majority — 78% — did so.
Throughout Europe governments are wrestling with how far to go to respond to calls to lift the veil and ban the head scarf.
While the issue in the Netherlands involves full-face veils or burqas, head scarves also have divided publics across the continent.
Opinion was more evenly divided in Spain, where 43% said the ban is a good idea and 48% opposed it.
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The divide over health care fits a broader pattern of growing partisan disagreement over the role and effectiveness of government.
For example, the values study shows that Republicans have become much less supportive over the past 25 years of the notion that government should help those in need, while Democratic attitudes are little changed.
In 2004, 41% of Pakistani Muslims said that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians were “often” or “sometimes justified” in order to defend Islam from its enemies, while only 35% felt that such attacks were never justified.
As the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey highlighted, support for terrorism is on the decline in much of the Muslim world, and this is particularly true in Pakistan.
The assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto comes at a time when Pakistani public opinion has been increasingly turning against extremism and terrorist violence.
In the spring of this year – just months before a suicide attacker would kill Bhutto – only 9% said suicide attacks are often or sometimes justified, while 72% said this kind of violence is never defensible (another 9% say they are “rarely” justified).
A year ago, even more Americans (69%) followed news about gas prices very closely.
By comparison, 33% followed the situation in Iraq very closely, and 23% listed Iraq as their top news story of the week.
Historically, rising gas prices have attracted broad public interest.
More than half of the public (52%) paid very close attention to news about gas prices, and 27% said this was the single news story they followed more closely than any other.
The national news media devoted 4% of its coverage to gasoline prices, making it the sixth most heavily covered news story of the week.
The rising price of gasoline replaced the Iraq war last week as the public’s most closely followed news story.
This past week, interest in gas prices outstripped media coverage of the issue by a wide margin.
Both types of digital banking are on the rise.
In 2011, 18% of cell phone owners said they have used their phone to check their balance or transact business with a bank.
In 2010, 46% of U.S. adults, or 58% of internet users, said they bank online.
People use their smartphone for none of the above, the most.
Of those options listed, people mostly use their smartphone to compare prices whilst shopping in retail stores.
People use their smartphone to place an order to be shipped to them, the least.
Among those 50 and older the ideological balance is reversed: 34% use one of the most conservative points to describe their ideology, while 19% use one of the most liberal points.
Among adults under 50, more place their ideology at the liberal (23%) than conservative (17%) end of the scale.
There are age and educational differences in how people rate their own ideology.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle’s decision to withdraw from consideration to be President Obama’s secretary for health and human services over a tax controversy attracted the very close interest of one-in-four Americans.
According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s content analysis, just 2% of news coverage was devoted to the Iraqi elections last week.
For 5% of the public, this was their top story of the week.
The elections in Iraq received considerably less interest from the American public than the first time Iraqis went to the polls in February, 2005.
That compares with a significantly greater percentage – 27% – that followed the Iraqi elections very closely in early 2005.
Just 7% say they followed the Iraqi elections very closely last week, while a 40% plurality say they did not follow these elections closely at all.
And while younger Republicans (those ages 18 to 49) broadly support granting legal status to those brought to the U.S. illegally as children (59% favor, 34% oppose), older Republicans are more divided (49% favor, 38% oppose).
Republican men (40%) are more likely to oppose granting legal status than are Republican women (32%).
Today, roughly one-in-five American adults are “smartphone-only” internet users – meaning they own a smartphone, but do not have traditional home broadband service.
A growing share of Americans now use smartphones as their primary means of online access at home.
The states of Brazil are shown in alphabetical order from top to bottom.
Pernambuco and riot de janeiro were the worst affected areas for covid.
There were significant periods of stability with little change between 2000 and 2005, and little change between 2009 and 2012.
Over the period 2000 to 2019 the per capita real GDP has increased.
The Gross Domestic Product per capita of Colorado has risen steadily from the year 2000 to 2020.
The budget balance was highest in 2018.
The budget balance was lowest in 2021.
After observing the graph there are no clear patterns or trend.
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Some 12% of these adults say they changed their views – either positively or negatively – about the Black Lives Matter movement or about police brutality and the need for police reform.
As part of the July survey, the Center asked social media users who say they have changed their views about a political or social issue because of something they saw to describe a recent instance when this took place.
Most Europeans doubt that Muslims coming into their countries want to adopt their national customs and way of life.
Substantial majorities in Germany (76%), Great Britain (64%), Spain (67%) and Russia (69%) say that Muslims in their country want to remain distinct from the larger society.
But while 70% of liberal Democrats say tax rates on household incomes over $250,000 should be raised, fewer than half of conservative and moderate Democrats (46%) say the same.
Democrats, regardless of ideology, support higher tax rates on corporations.
However, foreign-born Hispanics are more likely than native-born Hispanics to feel this way—80% versus 57%.
Overall, seven-in-ten (70%) Hispanics say the census is good for the Hispanic community.
Foreign-born Hispanics are more positive and knowledgeable about the 2010 U.S. Census than are native-born Hispanics, according to a nationwide survey of 1,003 Latino adults conducted March 16-25, 2010, by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.
From then the consumption changed little with some ups and downs.
Consumption rose steadily from around 10 quadrillion in 1975 to 17 quadrillion in 2000.
Over the past three years, the number saying TV is their main source has fallen 16 points among 18-29 year-olds, eight points among those 30 to 49, and six points among those age 50 and older.
The decline in the share of Americans who cite television as their main source of national and international news crosses all age groups.
But the jobs recovery has been far from complete for either group of workers.
For foreign-born workers, the fourth quarter of 2010 marks the third successive period of jobs growth.
The fourth quarter of 2010 is the first period since the middle of 2008 that native-born workers have experienced positive jobs growth (growth being measured as the change over the same quarter in the previous year).
For immigrant workers it fell 0.2 percentage points (from 10.1% to 9.9%) and for native-born workers it decreased by about 0.5 percentage points (from 9.5% to 9.0%).
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%.
Thus, the economic recovery now appears to be benefiting all workers, although the gains to native-born workers have been a bit later in coming.
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%.
The unemployment rate dropped for both groups during this period.
More specifically, in the one-year period from the fourth quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010, foreign-born workers gained 657,000 jobs and native-born workers gained 685,000 jobs.
During 2008, there were 4,000 companies in the IT sector in Germany, however by 2018 there were approximately 1,800 companies remaining.
The number of companies in the IT sector in Germany decreased between 2008 and 2018.
Between 2008 and 2009, there was a drastic loss of nearly 2,000 IT companies.
Not surprisingly, the president’s job ratings are weak in many Democratic- leaning states.
But the president has significant pockets of support in certain areas, particularly in the South and Mountain West.
Voters in Utah, in particular, remain strongly behind the president – over the past year, 63% approve of his job performance.
While overall approval of President Bush’s job performance has tumbled over the past year, he may still prove to be effective on the campaign stump for Republican candidates in certain parts of the country.
Similarly, in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama and Kansas more voters surveyed in the past year approve rather than disapprove.
In Pew Research Center surveys conducted over the past year, an average of 37% of Americans register approval of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, while 55% disapprove.
Just 24% of Maryland voters interviewed over the past year give Bush favorable marks, while 67% disapprove of his job performance, and the balance of opinion is nearly as bad in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Similarly, more voters in Oregon, Illinois, California and New York disapprove of the president than approve by margins of roughly two-to-one.
The Social Hostilities Index (SHI) is a 10-point index that measures acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organizations or groups in society, with a score of 10 indicating the highest level of hostilities.
The type of attack carried out against Malala – along with other social hostilities involving religion – is captured in Pew Research Center’s annual coding of global religious restrictions.
That year, Iraq accounted for 15.4% of the newshole, spurred by debates in Washington over Iraq policy and the beginning of the surge of U.S. troops in the country.
In recent years, Americans have paid closer attention to news about plans for U.S. troops in Iraq than conditions on the ground there.
In December 2010, just 19% said they were very closely following news about the current situation and events in Iraq.
Coverage of Iraq comprised just 0.6% of newshole monitored from Jan. 1 through Dec. 4 in the ongoing News Coverage Index (NCI) conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
That’s down substantially from 2007, the first year that PEJ began its ongoing coding of the news.
The conflict in Iraq has faded in Americans’ minds and in news coverage.
And most religious “nones” (57%) say society has “not gone far enough” when it comes to accepting people who are transgender, and that transgender individuals should be allowed to use public restrooms corresponding to their current gender identity (70%).
By comparison, other Christian groups are more evenly divided on these questions.
And Pew Research Center polling conducted in the summer of 2016 found that seven-in-ten white evangelical Protestants think that transgender people should be required to use the public restrooms that correspond with their birth gender.
Most white evangelical Protestants (61%) say society has “gone too far” when it comes to accepting people who are transgender.
Religious differences also extend to questions about societal acceptance of transgender people.
A plurality of the public (42%) says NATO is about as important to the U.S. as it is to other NATO countries.
About a third (34%) say the alliance is more important to other NATO countries, while just 15% say it is more important to the U.S.
However, the public is more divided about whether the NATO alliance is more important to the United States or other NATO countries.
Shakira has the most fb fans, Beyonce has the fewest.
2015 saw a huge spike in deaths in the US due to floods and flash floods and numbers tripled in the space of a few years.
From 1995 to 2010 the number of lives lost from flash floods remained at a constant under 100.
Read more in Teens and Mobile Phones (2010).
However, there is an interesting counter-trend, with more 12-13 year-olds sending/receiving video than those 14 and older (41% vs. 27%).
This older category of teens is also somewhat more likely to send/receive photos than the younger group of teens (67% vs. 56%).
Teen cell phone owners in the 14-17 age group are slightly more likely to take photos than those ages 12-13 (85% vs. 77%).
In the years 2020 and 2020, there was the same amount of smart-phone shipments.
2020 was the year that sold the most mobile phone units.
Roughly one-in-five adults ages 30 to 44 (22%) have student loan debt, as do 4% of those 45 and older.
Student debt is less common among older age groups.
In the current survey, 22% say they are following news about political violence in Egypt very closely.
But it is far lower than during the Arab Spring two years ago.
Public interest in news about Egypt is higher than it has been in the past few months.
In February 2011, when former President Hosni Mubarak resigned after weeks of public protests, 39% were following events in Egpt very closely.
On the general topic of racial tolerance and diversity, however, there are a few things we do know.
Might there be some social desirability embedded in these responses?
But even if that’s all we’re measuring, it may be its own marker of social progress.
It’s an interesting observation, but we have no way of knowing from our data whether it’s true.
You posit that there may be more of this going on among Millennials than among older respondents.
Lip service, after all, is one of the tributes we pay to virtue.
Sure.
First, all age groups in this country have grown more tolerant over time, and Millennials are the most tolerant of all, as illustrated by the accompanying chart on attitudes about interracial dating.
However, the combined share who say they are not too or not at all confident in Trump on this measure is about the same as it was last summer.
Democrats and Democratic leaners are 9 points more likely than last summer to say they are “not at all” confident in Trump to make wise decisions about the use of military force (68% today, compared with 59% last August).
More than six-in-ten Italian (68%), French (67%), British (65%) and American (64%) respondents say this would be a major threat to their countries.
However, solid majorities throughout Western Europe also see this as a major threat to their nations, including 72% of Italians and at least six-in-ten in France (66%), Germany (65%), Spain (64%) and Britain (60%).
Slightly smaller majorities hold this view in Spain (59%) and Germany (57%).
Concern is also shared about the potential danger from a Pakistan controlled by extremists.
A 14-nation survey by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, conducted Aug. 27 through Sept. 24, finds Americans expressing the greatest concerns about the Taliban regaining control of Afghanistan: roughly three-in-four (76%) say that this would be a major threat to the well-being of the U.S.
Italian opinion about the influence immigrants were having on their country was also among the most negative of the 47 nations surveyed in 2007.
Publics in Britain, France, Germany and Spain were divided, while the Swedes had an overwhelmingly positive view of the influence immigrants had on their country.
Italy was the only country of the Western European nations surveyed where a majority viewed the impact of immigrants negatively.
Nearly three-quarters of Italians (73%) said immigrants had a bad impact on their country; only in South Africa was this view as widespread — 75% of South Africans said immigrants had a negative influence on their country.
Around three-quarters (76%) of Americans typically drove alone last year, as they have every year since at least 2000.
And carpooling, at least as a way to get to and from work, has fallen over the decades – from 20% of workers in 1980 to 9% last year, according to the Census Bureau.
Cap Anson and Ernie Banks are two very vauable players who have both scored over 1500 runs for their team, Jimmy Ryan and Phil Cavarretta have both csored under 1000 runs so maybe need to be watched.
Fewer Americans (52%) say it’s either somewhat (32%) or very (20%) important for a president to have strong religious beliefs, even if those beliefs are different from their own.
But Democrats and those who lean toward the Democratic Party are more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say it is “very” important (71% vs. 53%), according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
Generally speaking, when it comes to traits that are important for a president to have, Americans care less about having a president who shares their religious beliefs than they do about having one who stands up for their religious beliefs.
But Republicans place more of a premium on having a president who is religious: About two-thirds of Republicans (65%) say this trait is at least somewhat important, compared with four-in-ten Democrats who say this (41%).
Across party lines and religious groups, roughly nine-in-ten or more say it is either somewhat or very important to have a president who lives a moral, ethical life.
The character of the person who occupies the Oval Office matters to the vast majority of Americans.
Four-in-ten U.S. adults (39%) say it’s at least somewhat important for a president to share their religious beliefs – though Republicans (53%) are about twice as likely as Democrats (27%) to say that this matters.
Half of Americans (51%) continue to oppose legalizing gay marriage, but this number has declined significantly from 63% in February 2004, when opposition spiked following the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and remained high throughout the 2004 election season.
Public acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years, though it remains a deeply divisive issue.
Opposition to gay marriage has fallen across the board, with substantial declines even among Republicans.
Only about one-in-five Americans currently call themselves liberal (21%), while 38% say they are conservative and 36% describe themselves as moderate.
The Democratic Party’s advantage in party identification has widened over the past two decades, but the share of Americans who describe their political views as liberal, conservative or moderate has remained stable during the same period.
This is virtually unchanged from recent years; when George W. Bush was first elected president, 18% of Americans said they were liberal, 36% were conservative and 38% considered themselves moderate.
But as is true among other types of Twitter users, a modest number of active tweeters produce an outsize share of legislative tweets.
A new analysis by Pew Research Center finds that the one-quarter of legislators who are most active on the site produce a majority of all tweets from this group – both overall and within each individual country.
Indeed, a majority of members of the national legislative bodies in five predominantly English-speaking countries have a Twitter account.