Pew Research Center Staff

That's the percentage of Americans who would rather have a smaller government providing fewer services; a statistically equal 43% would prefer a bigger government providing more services.

That's the portion of residents of the Northeastern United States who say they display the American flag at their home, office or on their car -- significantly more than say so among residents in the South or West.

That's the number of countries, among the 37 nations where data are available from the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey, in which a majority or clear plurality name the U.S. as the country that is "hurting the world's environment the most."

That's the number of countries, among the 47 nations covered in the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey, in which majorities or pluralities called China's growing military power a "bad thing."

That's the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they prefer a bigger government that provides more services (70%) over a smaller government providing fewer services (21%).

That's the large share of the public that now agrees that the government has a responsibility "to take care of people who can't take care of themselves" -- up from 61% in 2002.

That's the proportion of the U.S. public that believes that it is more important to conduct stem cell research that may result in new medical cures than to avoid destroying the potential life of embryos involved in such research.

That's the percentage of Muslim Americans who say that mosques should express their views on day-to-day social and political matters, 49% of U.S. Muslims take the opposite view.

That's the percentage of U.S. adults who completely (30%) or mostly (16%) agree that "books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public libraries" -- the lowest level of support in 20 years.

That's the number of Americans who support the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, somewhat fewer than in the late 1990s, but little changed since 2001.