Data Feed: Obama’s NSA speech, global investors’ outlook, flu tracking
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Overall book readership stable, but e-books becoming more popular
The typical U.S. adult read five books in the past 12 months.
Obama’s NSA Speech Has Little Impact on Skeptical Public
Survey Report President Obama’s speech on Friday outlining changes to the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone and internet data did not register widely with the public. Half say they have heard nothing at all about his proposed changes to the NSA, and another 41% say they heard only a little bit. Even among those […]
Christie’s Image Turns More Negative
Survey Report Chris Christie’s public image today is starkly different than it was a year ago. Last January, following Christie’s visible role in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, favorable opinions outnumbered unfavorable ones by more than two-to-one. Today, in the wake of a scandal involving highway lane closures that led to massive traffic jams in northern […]
January 2014 Political Survey
On MLK Day, racial equality found wanting
Fewer than half of Americans said their country made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the past half century.
New Law Targets Gay People In Nigeria
RNS: This year’s March for Life reaches a new group: evangelicals
CS Monitor: Why religious tensions are spiking around the globe
Key findings about growing religious hostilities around the world
Highlights from the fifth annual Pew Research Center study of religious hostilities around the world.
