A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center.
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We’ve been asking Americans about their online news habits since the mid-1990s. Since then, the ways people get news online have changed a lot — and so have the ways we ask about it.
I wrote an introductory blog post about how to access and analyze Pew Research Center survey data with R, a free, open-source software for statistical analysis. The post showed how to perform tasks using the survey package.
From time to time, data collected through surveys doesn’t match sources that are widely acknowledged as accurate.
Understanding how the numeric labels on scales might influence survey responses is an area of ongoing investigation for researchers.
Regression is a statistical method that allows us to look at the relationship between two variables, while holding other factors equal.
In a recent study about online opt-in polling, Pew Research Center compared a variety of weighting approaches and found that complex…
(Related post: Validating 2020 voters in Pew Research Center’s survey data)
Pew Research Center releases its survey data publicly as IBM SPSS files with the .sav extension. But if you don’t have access to SPSS, there are free, open-source tools available to analyze and make use of the data.
An introduction to the methodological musings, puzzles and tangles that you would see if you could flip those picture-perfect research products over.
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A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center.
For our latest research findings, visit pewresearch.org.
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