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• Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

  20-11-2025 15:48 via pewresearch.org
  YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.
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• Errata: Religious Restrictions Around the World

  19-12-2025 22:02 via pewresearch.org
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• Why some Americans have left Protestantism, while others stay or join

  15-12-2025 19:50 via pewresearch.org
  Find out why US adults who were raised Protestant stay in or leave the faith, and how they experienced religion as kids. Also discover why others join.
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• Why some Americans have left Catholicism, while others stay

  15-12-2025 19:50 via pewresearch.org
  Read about how Americans who were raised Catholic experienced religion as kids, as well as their reasons for staying in or leaving the faith.
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• Why many U.S. adults are ‘nones,’ and why some former ‘nones’ have joined a religion

  15-12-2025 19:50 via pewresearch.org
  Find out how adults who were raised as “nones” experienced religion as kids, and why they say they do – or don’t – affiliate with a religion now.
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• Why Do Some Americans Leave Their Religion While Others Stay?

  15-12-2025 19:50 via pewresearch.org
  A majority of adults still identify with their childhood religion, but 35% don’t. Read about when and why Americans may switch faiths or stay.
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• How parents are raising their children, religiously

  15-12-2025 19:50 via pewresearch.org
  Learn how often parents discuss religion, types of religious activities their children do and which parent plays a larger role in how their children learn about religion.
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• Errata: Many Catholics in the U.S. and Latin America Want the Church to Allow Birth Control and to Let Women Become Priests 

  12-12-2025 20:06 via pewresearch.org
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• Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025

  09-12-2025 20:54 via pewresearch.org
  Even as teens express mixed feelings about social media’s impact, these sites remain a key part of their lives, with some using them “almost constantly.” Now, AI chatbots, like ChatGPT and Character.ai, are getting teens’ attention. Roughly two-thirds report using chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily, according to a new Pew Research Center […]
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• Appendix: Detailed table

  09-12-2025 20:54 via pewresearch.org
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• Religion Holds Steady in America

  08-12-2025 19:52 via pewresearch.org
  Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
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• Public Trust in Government: 1958-2025

  04-12-2025 19:51 via pewresearch.org
  While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is lower than it was last year (22%).
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• Young Adults and the Future of News

  03-12-2025 15:50 via pewresearch.org
  U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from social media.
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• German Views of the U.S.-Germany Relationship Turn Sharply Negative

  24-11-2025 23:58 via pewresearch.org
  Nearly three-quarters of German adults say relations with the United States are bad, while only 24% of U.S adults say the same of relations with Germany.
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• Majorities of Latinos Disapprove of Trump and His Policies on Immigration, Economy 

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  78% of Hispanics say Trump’s policies harm their group, but views of the president and policies differ widely by how they voted in 2024.
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• 6. Latinos’ experiences with immigration enforcement in the second Trump administration

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  Amid heightened deportation efforts during Donald Trump’s second term, about half of U.S. Latinos worry they or someone close to them might be deported, up from earlier in the year. A majority also say immigration arrests or raids have occurred in their local area in the past six months. Latinos are more likely than other […]
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• 5. What Latinos think about the Trump administration’s deportation efforts

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  U.S. Latinos mostly oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policy. Roughly two-thirds say they disapprove of the administration’s approach to immigration, and about seven-in-ten say the administration is doing too much when it comes to deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally. Compared with all U.S. adults, Latinos express more critical views. Although […]
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• 4. Latinos’ ratings of the U.S. economy and their top economic concerns

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Latino voters ranked the economy as the top issue in their vote. Meanwhile, Donald Trump made improving economic conditions a central part of his campaign message. But nearly a year into Trump’s second term, most Latinos rate the economy negatively. And 61% say that Trump’s policies have made the […]
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• 3. The state of Latinos’ finances: Outlook, experiences, preparedness for a financial downturn

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  U.S. government data shows that Hispanics’ financial situation has improved in some ways. Between 2023 and 2024, the median income of Hispanic households increased by 5.5%, and the poverty rate among Hispanics decreased from 16.6% to 15.0%.[10.numoffset=”10″ These are estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau based on the 2024 Current Population Survey (CPS) and […]
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• 2. How Latinos see their group’s situation in the U.S.

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  For the first time in nearly two decades of Pew Research Center’s surveys of Hispanics, most say they think the situation of U.S. Hispanics has worsened in the last year. And about a third of Latinos say that in the last six months they have considered leaving the country, with the top reason being the […]
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• 1. How Latinos assess Trump and his impact on U.S. Hispanics

  24-11-2025 21:09 via pewresearch.org
  More Latinos disapprove than approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and most say his administration’s policies have been harmful to Hispanics. Additionally, about three-in-four Latinos are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today. These views come nearly one year after Trump was reelected to office. […]
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• Video: Why have polls underestimated Donald Trump?

  21-11-2025 01:56 via pewresearch.org
  We’re in an era where the people most likely to respond to a poll are also the most likely to vote Democratic for president. Pew Research Center’s head methodologist Courtney Kennedy explains how pollsters are tackling this challenge to make samples as representative as possible.The post Video: Why have polls underestimated Donald Trump? appeared first on Pew Research Center.
  
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• Parents’ confidence in childhood vaccine effectiveness, safety testing and schedule

  18-11-2025 15:57 via pewresearch.org
  Key takeaways Amid a record number of U.S. measles cases and falling childhood vaccination rates nationwide, 57% of U.S. parents with minor children have high confidence that childhood vaccines are effective at preventing illness. But trust in these vaccines – and confidence in different aspects of them – differs by parents’ demographic characteristics and party […]
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• How Do Americans View Childhood Vaccines, Vaccine Research and Policy?

  18-11-2025 15:57 via pewresearch.org
  A majority of Americans say childhood vaccines are effective at preventing illness, but slightly fewer are highlyconfident in vaccine safety.
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• South Africans See Their Country’s Influence Weakening Ahead of G20

  13-11-2025 17:48 via pewresearch.org
  Economic optimism remains low in South Africa but is improving. Adults there increasingly see China favorably and value economic ties with China.
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• 2. How South Africans view their country’s leaders, parties

  13-11-2025 17:48 via pewresearch.org
  As of early 2025, favorability of the governing African National Congress and optimism about the economy are both up since before the 2024 election.
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• 1. How South Africans see their country’s global standing

  13-11-2025 17:48 via pewresearch.org
  A plurality of South Africans say their country’s influence has been getting weaker in recent years, but views vary somewhat by political ideology.
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• How Parents Use Online Communities

  12-11-2025 19:58 via pewresearch.org
  On Reddit's largest parenting forum, around one-in-five posts mention kids' tech use. Posts often express negative emotions, but comments are overwhelmingly supportive.
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• Appendix B: Post and comment classification prompts

  12-11-2025 19:58 via pewresearch.org
  For this report, Reddit posts and comments were classified using the following prompts to GPT-4.1 mini. The prompts were designed to mirror the codebooks that our research team used to create the validation datasets of human-annotated posts and comments. In the prompt templates below, italics indicate input text that varies based on the post or […]
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• Appendix A: Distinctive terms by topic in r/Parenting posts

  12-11-2025 19:58 via pewresearch.org
  All 29,925 Reddit posts in our dataset were classified by mentions of three topics: family finances, technology use, and division of labor. We used a pointwise mutual information (PMI) metric to identify terms that are associated with posts mentioning each topic. Distinctive terms for each topic are listed in the table below.
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