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Sep 05, 2012 - According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, fully 54% of mobile application users have avoided certain apps and 30% have uninstalled an app due to concerns about the way personal information is shared or collected by the app.
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Sep 04, 2012 - Campaign and policy-related material on social networking sites plays a modest role in influencing most users’ views and political activities, a Pew Research Center survey finds. Democrats and liberals are the most likely to say the sites have impact and are important and the politically engaged stand out in their use of the sites.
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May 15, 2012 - A new study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that polls conducted by telephone have struggled with lower response rates in recent years, but they continue to provide accurate data on most political, social and economic measures.
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Apr 26, 2012 - The Census Bureau plans to take a big step into the world of digital data collection starting in January, offering more than 3 million households that receive the American Community Survey each year the option to respond online for the first time.
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Sep 28, 2011 - The Census Bureau says that more than one-in-four same-sex couples counted in the 2010 Census was likely an opposite-sex couple, and identified a confusing questionnaire as the likely culprit. The bureau released a new set of "preferred" same-sex counts.
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May 04, 2011 - When census-takers can’t reach anyone at a particular address or obtain information about occupants in other ways, they sometimes use a last-resort statistical technique called “imputation” to fill in missing data.
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Nov 22, 2010 - A new analysis of pre-election surveys finds that support for Republican candidates was significantly higher in landline-only samples than in samples that included cell phone interviews. The difference in the margin among likely voters this year is about twice as large as in 2008.
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Oct 13, 2010 - Data from Pew Research Center polling this year suggest that the landline-only bias is as large as it was in 2008 -- and potentially larger.
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Jul 09, 2009 - The mobile nature of wireless phones creates a significant problem for geographic sampling. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that the wireless-only are more geographically mobile than those with landline phones.
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Jun 25, 2009 - Despite such challenges as a growing wireless-only population, possible racially-related response bias and greater-than-usual difficulties in forecasting turnout, polllsters' methods were evidently adequate to the task.
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Jun 24, 2009 - How the question is phrased has a clear impact on whether the public rates deficit reduction or stimulus spending more important.
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Dec 18, 2008 - The latest study of Pew Research Center election surveys analyzes the effects of conducting both landline and cell phone interviews. While the addition of cell phones had at most a modest effect on estimates of candidate support in individual surveys, when looked at in the aggregate clear patterns emerge.
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Sep 23, 2008 - As in two preceding tests, a new survey shows that including cell phone interviews results in slightly more support for Obama and slightly less for McCain.
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May 22, 2008 - The Pew Research Center has been studying the challenge to survey research posed by the growing number of wireless-only households. Scott Keeter, the center's director of survey research, provides a summary of its latest findings.
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Apr 21, 2008 - Survey research firms face increasingly high non-completion rates. Analysis based on extra efforts to reach non-responders finds few differences between the responses of the easy- and hard-to-reach.
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Jan 31, 2008 - Study finds that on key political measures such as presidential approval, Iraq policy, presidential primary voter preference and party affiliation, respondents reached on cell phones hold attitudes very similar to those reached on landline telephones.
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May 01, 2007 - In December, The Philadelphia Inquirer listed some of the “most quoted and more reliable” survey groups, which included the Pew Research Center.
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Oct 01, 2004 - A new subsidiary — the Pew Research Center — is one change following Pew's governing transformation. The components of this organization, however, are well known.
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