Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Both the FBI and BJS data show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s, when crime spiked across much of the nation. Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-74%), aggravated assault (-39%) and …
What We Know About Gen Z So Far | Pew Research Center
WEBMay 14, 2020 · Only 18% of Gen Z teens (ages 15 to 17) were employed in 2018, compared with 27% of Millennial teens in 2002 and 41% of Gen Xers in 1986. And among young adults ages 18 to 22, while 62% of Gen Zers were employed in 2018, higher shares of Millennials (71%) and Gen Xers (79%) were working when they were a comparable age.
Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11
WEBSep 2, 2021 · Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11. Americans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years later, they watched in sorrow as the nation’s military mission in Afghanistan – which began less than a …
Key findings about U.S. immigrants | Pew Research Center
WEBJul 22, 2024 · The U.S. foreign-born population reached a record 46.1 million in 2022. Growth accelerated after Congress made U.S. immigration laws more permissive in 1965. In 1970, the number of immigrants living in the U.S. was less than a quarter of what it is today. Immigrants today account for 13.8% of the U.S. population.
Social Media Use in 2021 | Pew Research Center
WEBApr 7, 2021 · Despite a string of controversies and the public’s relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever use any kind of social media site – a share that has remained relatively stable over the past five years, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.. Beyond the …
The 2020 electorate by party, race, age, education, religion: Key ...
WEBOct 26, 2020 · ABOUT PEW RESEARCH CENTER Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven …
How Millennials compare with prior generations - Pew Research …
WEBFeb 14, 2019 · Four-in-ten Millennials with just a high school diploma (40%) are currently married, compared with 53% of Millennials with at least a bachelor’s degree. In comparison, 86% of Silent Generation high school graduates were married in 1968 versus 81% of Silents with a bachelor’s degree or more. Millennial women are also waiting longer to become ...
Key facts about Americans and guns | Pew Research Center
WEBJul 24, 2024 · Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to summarize key facts about Americans’ relationships with guns. We used data from recent Center surveys to provide insights into Americans’ views on gun policy and how those views have changed over time, as well as to examine the proportion of adults who own guns and their reasons for doing …
What the data says about abortion in the U.S. - Pew Research Center
WEBMar 25, 2024 · The CDC says that in 2021, there were 11.6 abortions in the U.S. per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44. (That figure excludes data from California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Hampshire and New Jersey.) Like Guttmacher’s data, the CDC’s figures also suggest a general decline in the abortion rate over time.
Facts About the U.S. Black Population | Pew Research Center
WEBJan 18, 2024 · The U.S. Black population is young. The median age of Black people in 2022 was 32.1 years, nearly six years younger than the U.S. population’s median age of 38.0. Roughly 30% of the entire Black population was below the age of 20 while 12% were 65 or older. Just under half of the U.S. Black population (45%) was younger than 30 in 2022.