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Confidence in medicine has been somewhat less stable, however.
(The 4-percentage-point uptick does not reach statistical significance.)
It declined in the early 1990s and has ticked downward again in more recent years, from 41% in 2010 to 36% in 2016 and 37% in NORC’s most recent survey.
Public confidence in the scientific community stands out as among the most stable of about a dozen institutions rated in the GSS since the mid-1970s.
Public confidence in the science community and in medicine is higher than in many other institutions.
On average, confidence in institutions is lower today than it was in the mid-1970s.
In the group’s 2018 General Social Survey, the most recent available, 44% of Americans overall have a great deal of confidence in the scientific community, while 47% have only some confidence and 7% have hardly any.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, just 13% of Americans express a great deal of confidence in the press and 6% say the same about Congress.
This was roughly the same share as in 2016, when 40% said they had a great deal of confidence in scientific leaders.
Confidence is highest for leaders of the military, with 60% expressing a great deal of confidence.
And 52% correctly identify a scientific hypothesis about a computer slowing down.
Six-in-ten Americans (60%) can identify that adding a control group is the best of four options to use to test whether an ear infection medication is effective.
The survey includes two questions designed to test understanding of scientific processes.
Salaries started in 2009 at 26000 SEK per month and have gradually increased to 34000 SEK per month in 2019.
Salaries have always increased over the years and have never decreased.
Since the chart started in 2009 to 2019 there has been a steady increase in average monthly salaries in the public sector in Sweden.
(A previous analysis by the Center estimated there were more than 900,000 legal entries of citizens from restricted countries between 2006 and 2015 when Iraq was included in the list of restricted countries.)
The new order specifies that most citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen cannot enter the U.S. on new visas until security procedures used to evaluate visa applications have been reviewed; it excludes Iraq, which was a seventh country named in the January order.
This group includes visitors, students and diplomats as well as refugees and new lawful permanent residents, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
The new order, signed by President Donald Trump on March 6, takes effect March 16 and supersedes a previous order signed on Jan. 27 that was later blocked by U.S. courts.
The six nations affected by a new executive order that prevents their citizens from obtaining new visas to enter the United States for 90 days accounted for 649,932 legal U.S. entries between fiscal years 2006 and 2015.
About two-thirds (65%) said they had a positive view of “capitalism,” and a third viewed it negatively.
Some who view socialism negatively portray it as a serious threat to capitalism in the U.S., while others who view it positively say the opposite – that it builds upon and improves capitalism.
Earlier this year, Pew Research Center found that 55% of Americans had a negative impression of “socialism,” while 42% expressed a positive view.
And some who have a positive view of socialism express an explicit preference for a system that blends socialism and capitalism.
For many Americans, “socialism” is a word that evokes a weakened work ethic, stifled innovation and excessive reliance on the government.
For others, it represents a fairer, more generous society.
About eight-in-ten or more adults say politicians (84%), large corporations (82%) and wealthy people (82%) have too much power and influence.
Among Americans overall, there is widespread agreement around which groups have too much power in today’s economy.
About three-quarters (74%) say health insurance companies have too much power, and majorities say the same about banks and other financial institutions (64%) and technology companies (61%).
By comparison, 54% of all U.S. Hispanics say they prefer their ancestor’s Hispanic origin term to describe their identity, 23% say they describe themselves most often as “American” and two-in-ten use the pan-ethnic terms of “Hispanic” or “Latino” to describe their identity.
Among those who have a preference, more prefer the term “Hispanic” (28% of all Salvadorans), while 22% prefer the term “Latino.” By comparison, half of all Hispanic adults have no preference for either term, and among those who do have a preference, Hispanic is favored over Latino 2-to-1.
When asked in the 2013 Pew Research survey whether they thought of themselves as a typical American or very different from a typical American, Salvadorans are more likely to see themselves as “very different from a typical American” (51%) compared with about one-third of Salvadoran adults (35%) who see themselves as “a typical American.” By comparison, Hispanic adults overall are more likely to think of themselves as typical Americans (49%) than very different from a typical American (44%).
In regard to the pan-ethnic terms of “Hispanic” or “Latino,” about half of Salvadoran adults (49%) have no preference for either term.
When asked in a 2013 Pew Research Center survey what term they use to describe themselves most often, about half of Salvadoran adults (49%) say they most often use term “Salvadoran.” Some 12% say they describe themselves most often as “American.” About one-third (36%) most often use the pan-ethnic terms of “Hispanic” or “Latino” to describe their identity.
“Salvadoran” is the identity term used most often.
Most Christians in the United States (63%) say that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by their sex at birth.
Among religious “nones” – those who identify religiously as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” – about six-in-ten (62%) say they think a person’s gender is not necessarily determined by the sex they are assigned at birth.
However, there are significant differences across age groups.
Only 23% say this is not an adult child’s responsibility.
Some 44% say parents do not have a responsibility to do this.
Fully 75% of adults say that adult children have a responsibility to provide financial assistance to an elderly parent in need.
Adults under age 40 are the most likely to say an adult child has a responsibility to support an elderly parent in need.
When it comes to providing financial support to an aging parent in need, there is strong support for the responsibility to do so across most major demographic groups.
By contrast, only about half of all respondents (52%) say parents have a responsibility to provide financial assistance to a grown child if he or she needs it.
Eight-in-ten in this age group (81%) say this is a responsibility, compared with 75% of middle-aged adults and 68% of those ages 60 or older.
Meanwhile, Democratic voters are less positive about their party’s field than at about the same point in 2007, the last election in which the party had a contested nomination.
Nearly six-in-ten (59%) Republican and Republican leaning voters say they have an excellent or good impression of their party’s presidential candidates, which is little changed from May of this year (57%).
In August 2011, 49% of Republican voters viewed the GOP presidential field positively; in October 2007, 50% had a favorable impression of the candidates as a group.
The survey finds that Republican voters continue to give their field of presidential candidates higher ratings than at comparable points during the last two presidential campaigns.
The number of employees in the bingo section of the gambling sector has steadily declined from late 2012 to 2018. there was a brief rise in late 2012.
Numbers have declined from about 18000 at the peak to about 12000 in 2018.
Twitter averaged 320 million monthly active users (MAUs) in the fourth quarter of 2015, 9.6% more than in the same quarter a year earlier, according to the company’s financial disclosure statements.
Last year, Pew Research Center estimated that 23% of all adult internet users, and a fifth of the entire adult population, uses Twitter.
Twitter’s user base has grown rapidly but may be plateauing.
That’s Twitter’s slowest annualized growth rate since at least 2011, when comparable data began to be publicly disclosed.
(The company defines an MAU as anyone who accessed the service at least once in the past 30 days.)
Twitter has nearly four times as many users internationally as in the United States – 254 million versus 65 million, as of the fourth quarter of 2015, according to company filings.
Twitter is largely a global service.
In the U.S., usage is highest among urban residents, adults under 50 and people in upper-income brackets.
However, the company says, Twitter’s penetration generally is higher in the U.S. than in other countries in which it operates.
Domestic, international and total MAUs were all flat or slightly down compared with the third quarter.
Thus, the average annual change over the 2000-2004 period is about 485,000 or 10.3 million minus 8.4 million divided by 4.
However, there are a number of data sources that point to substantially larger growth increments at the very end of the 1990s (and possibly at the end of the 1980s and the very early 1990s).
Because of inherent uncertainties in the residual technique, the difference in successive annual estimates of the unauthorized population is not a valid measure of growth.
For the entire decade of the 1990s, growth averaged just about 500,000 per year.
However, it is possible to use differences taken over longer intervals to measure growth.
A year ago, 56% thought 2014 would be a better year than the last, compared with fewer (35%) who thought it would be worse.
The public remains deeply dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.
And it has muted expectations for the year to come: 49% say they think 2015 will be a better year than 2014, while 42% think it will be worse.
Just 26% are satisfied with national conditions, while 71% are dissatisfied.
The current ratings are more pessimistic than in recent years, as the public generally takes an optimistic view of the year to come.
The current seven-point gap in expectations for a better (49%) than worse (42%) year is the narrowest margin measured in Pew Research Center surveys dating to 1994.
A steady and gently paced rise peaking at over $6 billion in 2019.
An entry point in 2010 of $4 billion.
About one-in-five say Democrats are unfriendly toward religion (22%), up from 15% who felt that way last year but about the same as in surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006.
After peaking at 38% in mid-2008 during Obama’s presidential election campaign, the number of Americans describing the Democratic Party as friendly toward religion returned in mid-2009 to levels similar to those seen in 2005 through 2007.
According to the CPS, an estimated 131.1 million U.S. citizens voted in the 2008 presidential election – slightly less than the 131.3 million votes cast for president, as reported by the Center for the Study of the American Electorate (Gans, 2008) and other sources (McDonald, 2009).
The Census Bureau’s biannual Current Population Survey November Voting and Registration Supplement is the most comprehensive data source available for examining the demographic composition of the electorate in federal elections.
However, because it relies on post-election self-reporting by survey respondents in some 55,000 households, these weighted CPS estimates of turnout never match up precisely with the actual number of votes tallied in the 50 states.
Ratings of the court have edged lower since April (from 56% favorable).
The survey finds that 52% of Americans now view the nation’s highest court favorably, while 38% have an unfavorable opinion.
there is an increase every year in services as it a rising line.
From 2010 to 2020 the distribution of employment increased each year.
The public sees China in less negative terms than Russia.
Still, 43% consider China a serious problem (but not an adversary); about a third (34%) say China is not much of a problem, while just 16% consider China an adversary.
The share that considers China an adversary has edged down 6 points since early 2017.
Men are more likely than women to say so, as are whites when compared with black and Hispanic adults.
Adults younger than 30 are least likely to have heard something recently, while those ages 65 and older are more than twice as likely to say the same.
A majority of U.S. adults (54%) say they have heard something recently – within the last month or so – about the census.
The new survey finds wide awareness about the census across all demographic groups.
By 2017, it's already reached 0.6, and it doesn't go further down from there.
From 2009 to 2019, the share lowers from almost 0.7 to 0.6.
It's not a very steep line downward, but it is almost entirely downward, with very little upward movement whatsoever.
(Adults ages 18 to 29 do not significantly differ from older groups.)
Roughly a third of Americans living in urban (35%) and suburban (36%) areas say they have ordered from a local restaurant online or through an app because of the outbreak, compared with 21% of those living in rural areas.
In addition, college graduates are more likely than those with some college experience or those who have a high school education or less to say they have ordered food online or through an app from a local restaurant.
College graduates (28%) are more likely than those with some college (21%) or a high school education or less (16%) to report that they have ordered groceries online.
Similarly, about a quarter (26%) of Americans ages 30 to 49 say that they have ordered groceries online or through an app from a local store as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, while only 18% of those 50 and older say the same.
The Chinese education system’s intense focus on test-taking has received a fair amount of attention in recent years, especially after Shanghai students topped the rankings for math, science, and reading on the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam.
In a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, 64% said American parents were not putting enough pressure on their children to do well in school; just 11% felt parents were putting too much pressure on their kids and 21% thought the amount of pressure was about right.
Views were quite different in China, the only country where a majority (68%) said parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed in school.
The view that parents were not pushing their kids hard enough was especially common among 30 to 49 year-olds (72%), the age group most likely to have children under age 18.
Among 21 nations polled, the U.S. had the highest percentage saying parents should apply more pressure.
Globally, Americans stand out on this question.
But apparently many Chinese believed the long hours of test prep – according to the OECD 80% of Shanghai students have after school tutoring – were a bit too much.
In terms of which of the following sources of information responders used to keep up with entertainment and celebrity news, the most popular way was "Broadcasters" (0.47) and the least popular was "Email newsletters" (0.05).
A relative close second was "National Newspapers".
The x-axis shows Response as categorical scale starting at Broadcasters Shows the highest share of response.
"Social Media" came in fourth at around 0.23.
Child mortality rate decreases from 1850 to 200 with peaks and troughs in data until 1925 where mortality rate decreases gradually.
Projections show these gains will come mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to more than triple in population by 2100.
Between 2020 and 2100, Africa’s population is expected to increase from 1.3 billion to 4.3 billion.
The regions that include the United States and Canada (Northern America) and Australia and New Zealand (Oceania) are projected to grow throughout the rest of the century, too, but at slower rates than Africa.
Africa is the only world region projected to have strong population growth for the rest of this century.
(This analysis uses regional classifications from the UN and may differ from other Pew Research Center reports.)
This 9 percentage point drop is the largest among all groups of parents, partnered or not.
Unpartnered fathers experienced a less severe decrease (4 points), about the same as the drop seen by partnered mothers and fathers (about 5 points each).
While previous research on the labor market shows that the pandemic has similarly affected mothers and fathers overall from September 2019 to September 2020, a new Pew Research Center analysis finds that the share of unpartnered mothers who are employed and at work has fallen more precipitously than among other parents.
In September 2020, six months since the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak, 67.4% of unpartnered mothers with children younger than 18 at home were working – employed and on the job – compared with 76.1% in September 2019.
With the expectation that a far larger share of voters will cast their ballots by mail than in past elections comes the prospect that counting those ballots may take substantially longer than in past years.
While most Biden supporters (73%) say this at least somewhat important, only 39% say it is very important.
By contrast, there is far less uniformity when it comes to the importance of people who are ineligible to vote being prevented from voting.
But about half of registered voters (52%) say it is very important that Americans know who won the election with a day or two of Election Day, and 82% say this is at least somewhat important.
More than nine-in-ten Trump supporters (94%) say it is at least somewhat important that the winner of the election be known within a day or two of the polls closing, including 69% who say this is very important.
While clear majorities of both coalitions say this is at least somewhat important (93% of Trump supporters, 78% of Biden voters), Trump supporters are much more likely to consider this very important: 86% say this, compared with about half (49%) of Biden backers.
Trump supporters also are substantially more likely than Biden supporters to say that knowing the winner of the election within a few days is important.
This has stabilized since 2015 to over 100 Billion US Dollars.
There has been a small decrease since then.
There was a general upward trend from 2000 to the peak in 2012.
During the years 2010 to 2015, there was a spike in value of machinery, equipment and transport means from Russia of over 150 Billion US Dollars.
Nearly six-in-ten Germans say having the U.S. as the top global power would be better for the world, with only 19% saying this about China.
Despite their mixed feelings toward American power, Germans clearly prefer the U.S. as the world’s leading power over China.
However, 17% in Germany volunteer “neither” when asked the question.
Fully 83% of U.S.-born Latinos say they have visited a public library at some point in their lives—a share similar to that of whites and blacks.
Some public library services can also be accessed remotely through library websites.
Here, too, though, the survey finds a gap in use between U.S.-born Latinos (49%), blacks (48%) and whites (45%) who say they have accessed a public library website and immigrant Latinos (27%) who say the same.
Seven-in-ten (72%) Latinos ages 16 and older say they have visited a public library or bookmobile in person at one point or another in their lives, the survey shows, a share below that of whites (83%) and blacks (80%).
However, among immigrant Latinos, a smaller share—60%—say they have visited a public library or bookmobile in person.
But this finding masks a large difference among Latinos.
Around seven-in-ten Hispanic voters (68%) say gun laws should be stricter than they are today, while 24% say current gun laws are about right.
Hispanic Republican voters are more evenly divided, with 44% saying gun laws should be stricter and 42% saying gun laws are about right.
The survey was conducted several months after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, involving a suspect who said he targeted Mexicans.
Among Hispanic Democratic voters, 80% say gun laws should be stricter.
Only 7% say gun laws should be less strict.
Despite the growth of internet news, it is clear that television news outlets, specifically cable news outlets, are central to people’s impressions of the news media.
Just 3% name a website – either web-only or linked to a traditional news organization – when asked what comes to mind when they think of news organizations.
When asked what first comes to mind when they think of news organizations, 63% volunteer the name of a cable news outlet, with CNN and Fox News by far the most prevalent in people’s minds.
Fewer than one-in-five mention local news outlets and only 5% mention a national newspaper such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or USA Today.
Only about a third (36%) name one of the broadcast networks.
The gap has widened over the years and across the generations: In 1965, when the members of the Silent Generation were 25 to 34 years old, median earnings for high-school graduates were 81% of those for college graduates; in 2013, among the Millennials, it was 61.5%.
Among that group, workers with at least a bachelor’s degree had median annual earnings of $45,500, well over the medians for people with only some college ($30,000) or a high-school diploma ($28,000).
But graduates still out-earn people without degrees.
A Pew Research Center report from earlier this year looked at earnings of Millennials (those born after 1980) who usually worked full-time in 2012.
The same is the case in Spain and France, where a majority of the public believes personal finances have deteriorated, but per capita real GDP has improved 25% and 11% respectively.
In Mexico, while 40% say times are worse for average people, per capita GDP is 16% higher.
Substantial shares in 15 of the 27 nations polled believe that, compared with 20 years ago, the financial situation of average people in their country is worse today.
But public perceptions of a more prosperous past often do not mirror real economic change.
This view is especially pronounced in Greece (87%), Tunisia (75%), Italy (72%), Spain (62%), France (56%) and the UK (53%).
In Brazil, where a plurality of 43% say personal financial conditions are worse today than 20 years ago, adjusted per capita gross domestic product (GDP) calculated on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis is actually up 26% since 1998.
Along with failure to erase doubts about the future, economic confidence today is dogged by the popular belief that times were better before the Great Recession.
The tense negotiations in Washington over legislation to cut the federal deficit and raise the nation’s debt limit topped the public’s news interest and the media’s coverage for the third consecutive week.
Four-in-ten (40%) say they followed news about the debt debate more closely than any other news last week, while the fight’s various story lines accounted for 47% of the week’s coverage.
This pattern holds true across each major demographic group.
By comparison, the largest share (64%) says these tools will be useful, but will not be a replacement for face-to-face communications, and just 8% say the internet or phones won’t help much at all during this time.
Roughly three-quarters of college graduates (73%) say that if their everyday in-person interactions have to be done online or by phone, it will help but not be a replacement for in-person contact.
Still, there are some notable differences by educational attainment.
Asked what will happen if many of the everyday interactions they have in person have to be done online or by phone because of the coronavirus outbreak, 27% say these technologies will be just as good as in-person contact.
That share falls to 63% among those who have some college experience and 56% among Americans with a high school education or less.
The North East and Northern Ireland have the highest share of households receiving benefits, London has the lowest share of households on benefits.