Adapting how we ask about the gender of our survey respondents
Updating our question wording acknowledges changing norms around gender identity and improves data quality and accuracy.
Updating our question wording acknowledges changing norms around gender identity and improves data quality and accuracy.
A majority of women say they have experienced harassing behavior from someone they went on a date with.
Many single-and-looking people wouldn’t want to date someone who voted for the opposing party's candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Only 23% say they have emergency funds that would last them three months.
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
Overall readiness to respond to the census has inched up since earlier this year, even as some key hard-to-count groups remain less enthusiastic than others.
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
As the 2020 census gets underway, most U.S. adults are aware of it and are ready to respond, but many do not know what it asks or how to participate.
Americans overwhelmingly are aware of the upcoming 2020 census, and more than eight-in-ten say they definitely or probably will participate.
The share of Americans who favor same sex marriage has grown in recent years, though there are still demographic and partisan divides.