Global Attitudes & Trends A digest of the Center’s latest findings from its worldwide public opinion surveys and demographic research · Subscribe ↗ In the news Social media harms democracy by spreading rumors, survey showsReuters Most people think AI will cut more jobs than create them; Indians feel AI will widen rich-poor gap—Pew ThePrint Pew poll finds

Amid protests, 85% of French adults say their economy is bad, a higher share than in any of 17 other high-income countries surveyed.

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Around two-thirds (65%) now disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling the U.S. military action in Iran, while a third (33%) approve.

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 200 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, 2026. A total of 5,062 panelists responded out of 5,835 who were sampled,

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateAndy Cerda, Research AnalystShanay Gracia, Research Analyst Ted Van Green, Research Analyst Communications and editorial Nida

The costs of many household essentials are a top economic concern for most Americans – much as they were four years ago on the eve of the last midterm election.

The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 200 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4, 2026. A total of 5,062 panelists responded out of 5,835 who were sampled,

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research AssociateAndrew Daniller, Research AssociateAndy Cerda, Research AnalystShanay Gracia, Research Analyst Ted Van Green, Research Analyst Communications and editorial Nida

The economy is the dominant issue for midterm voters in this fall’s congressional elections. As Americans express growing concerns about economic conditions and the cost of necessities, 84% of registered voters say the economy is very important to their midterm vote. It is the top issue among both voters who prefer Republican candidates in the

31% of Trump’s 2024 voters disapprove of his job performance Three-in-ten Americans now approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 68% disapprove. Trump’s approval rating has dropped substantially over the course of his second term – his current rating is comparable to the lowest rating of his first term

This is part of a larger report on the attitudes and dynamics shaping the 2026 midterm elections. With several weeks to go until Election Day, Americans who are registered to vote favor Democrats over Republicans in the national race for the House of Representatives by an 8 percentage point margin (44% to 36%). About two-in-ten

The 2026 midterm election comes amid deep public dissatisfaction with the state of the nation and near-record low approval ratings for Trump.

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Most Americans chat privately about news online, but only about a quarter post publicly.

This report explores the posting activity and topics discussed by health and wellness influencers on social media. It is based on an analysis of 535,512 Instagram, TikTok and YouTube posts published by 6,334 influencers from Feb. 1 to April 30, 2026. These influencers were first identified in our initial study of health and wellness influencers.

Influencers who describe themselves as healthcare professionals tend to post much more often about topics like medical conditions, mental health or treatments requiring the supervision of a doctor.

This report is made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. It is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org. Primary researchers Galen Stocking, Associate Director, Science and Society Research Regina Widjaya, Computational Social Scientist Anna Lieb, Computational Social Science Analyst Kaitlyn Radde, Computational

Just over half of health and wellness content on social media focuses on healthy living, while about a third discusses medical topics. And 38% of posts have a product or service promotion.

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Many don’t consider themselves Republicans or Democrats. Instead, they're independents or something else – though they often “lean” toward a major party.

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About eight-in-ten Australian adults support restricting access to social media for kids. This includes 51% who strongly support it.

About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online interviews conducted under the direction of Gallup, Langer Research Associates and Social Research Centre. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. Read more about our international survey methodology and

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Richard Wike, Director, Global Attitudes ResearchMaria Smerkovich, Research AssociateMoira Fagan, Senior Researcher Julia Armeli, Research AssistantDorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel ManagerPeter Bell, Associate Director, Design and UXJanakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystShifra Dayak, Editorial SpecialistJonathan Evans, Senior ResearcherSneha

Facebook is generally the top platform globally, followed by Instagram, while fewer overall use TikTok, X or Snapchat.

In 2026, 64% of Americans say social media is harming their democracy, and attitudes in many other countries are significantly more negative than they used to be.

Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics.

Key takeaways shared in “From AI Insight to AI Impact,” a ComNet 2026 session hosted by Claudia Deane, Executive Vice President, and Monica Anderson, Director, Internet and Technology Research, at Pew Research Center. For more about how Americans view AI, visit Pew Research Center’s Artificial Intelligence topic page. Artificial intelligence systems have become an intermediary

Since 2015, the share of Americans who say they use cash for all or almost all of their purchases in a typical week has fallen by half, from 24% to 12%.

The standard profile The extended profile For a full list of questions used in the extended profile, refer to the Wave 183 topline.[8. numoffset=”8″ Variables POLFUT, NATPROBS battery (DEF, IMM, GUN, CLIM, RAC, VCRI and INEQ), GOVSIZE_SM, GOVSIZE_BIG, SNGLPYER, NOGOVTHC, THERMO battery (THERMREP and THERMDEM), SOSEC_RED, SOSEC_KEEP, SHTDWN_KNOW, KNOW_SHTDWN, KNOW_SHTDWN_WHY and SHTDWN_SELF_CONF were not included

You are a respondent to a public opinion survey in the United States of America. Your task is to answer survey questions. You are playing the role of a person with the following profile: {PROFILE_JSON} You are already in the middle of answering the survey. Here are the questions you have previously seen and the

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Primary researchers Athena Chapekis, Computational Social Scientist Arnold Lau, Former Research Methodologist Andrew Mercer, Principal Research Methodologist Samuel Bestvater, Associate Director, Data Labs Sono Shah, Former Associate Director, Data Labs Research team Aaron Smith, Director, Data Labs Anna Brown,

This report compares synthetic polling results with benchmark surveys administered to human respondents. To develop the “silicon sample,” we first built a custom architecture for administering synthetic surveys. Then, we selected three survey waves from Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) – Wave 185, Wave 190 and Wave 192 – and replicated them on

Survey experiments with Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.1 each paint a very different picture of U.S. public opinion, neither of which reflect reality.

AI survey respondents are more likely than humans to agree on one answer choice or avoid a response option entirely.

AI survey respondents are far less likely than humans to select "not sure" or factually incorrect answers.

Synthetic surveys fail to replicate public opinion on timely and topical issues in early 2026, including presidential approval and views of data centers.

Synthetic survey respondents tend to exaggerate differences between demographic subgroups and portray some responses as nearly universal.

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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Urban, suburban and rural Americans engage in public life at similar rates but differ in some of the specific activities they do.

In this post, we’ll share our current guidelines for the internal use of artificial intelligence and potential areas of experimentation.

Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ From our research The share of Americans who say they would be uncomfortable with a new data center in their area.

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Americans’ feelings toward China have warmed since 2021, though views remain mostly cold, with sharp partisan and generational divides.

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Prediction market trading on Kalshi and Polymarket doubled from May to July, mostly due to a large uptick in sports trading.

Americans’ views of data centers have turned more negative since January. But many are unsure or unfamiliar with them.

Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/religion. This project includes new analysis of data from the 2023-24 U.S. Religious Landscape Study (RLS). The RLS was made

The 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), on which this project is based, is a national cross-sectional survey designed by Pew Research Center and administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. It was conducted in English and Spanish from July 17, 2023, to March 4, 2024, among a nationally representative sample of 36,908 U.S. adults.

About half of Latter-day Saints (48%) say most people can be trusted, compared with 34% of U.S. adults overall.

Latter-day Saints are more likely than many other Americans to rate their family lives highly and to marry someone of the same religion.

Three-quarters of Latter-day Saint Republicans say racial and ethnic diversity strengthens the country, compared with six-in-ten Republicans overall.

Latter-day Saints in the US are highly religious, though not uniformly so Excerpt: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in the Mountain region and members who have more education are especially religious.

The demographics of those who were raised in the church – and remain in it – also differ in notable ways from those who left or converted to it.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are still highly religious and conservative, but signs point to demographic and social change.

Ahead of Brazil's Oct. 4 elections, here are four facts about how they view their country and Brazil’s main trading partners.

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This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Laura Silver, Associate Director, Global Attitudes ResearchRichard Wike, Director, Global Attitudes ResearchMoira Fagan, Senior ResearcherJordan Lippert, Research Analyst Julia Armeli, Research AssistantDorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel ManagerPeter Bell, Associate Director, Design and UXJanakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystJonathan

About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online interviews conducted under the direction of Gallup, Langer Research Associates and Social Research Centre. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. Read more about our international survey methodology and

Trust in China, the U.S. and the EU to regulate AI is tied to overall favorability. Many people trust their own country more than any other regulator.

People in high-income countries are more likely than those in less wealthy nations to be concerned about AI, as well as its impact on jobs and economic inequality.

Majorities in most of 37 countries surveyed have at least some awareness of AI. In some places, the share who has heard a lot about it has increased since last year.

A 37-country survey finds that young adults are particularly worried about AI leading to fewer jobs. Still, they're more likely than older people to feel both excited and concerned about AI.

Amid a mix of concern and excitement about AI, a 37-country survey finds pessimism about its potential impact on jobs and economic inequality.

In another shift, Democrats are now more likely than Republicans to predict that AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years (75% vs. 68%).

There are good arguments against weighting surveys to match how people voted in past elections or an independent estimate of political party affiliation. We know because we’ve made many of those arguments over the years! However, the steep decline in survey response rates and the rise in differential partisan nonresponse have made those arguments less

This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Scott Keeter, Senior Survey AdvisorCourtney Kennedy, Former Vice President, Methods and InnovationAndrew Mercer,

There are two big reasons why many pollsters now weight their surveys on political characteristics such as party affiliation or past vote, when this wasn’t common practice a decade ago: to correct for a systematic bias that emerged around 2016 and to protect against poll-to-poll volatility driven by who participates rather than real changes in

One challenge pollsters face when weighting surveys based on people’s self-reported political party affiliation is that the population target can change fairly quickly. One year, Americans may be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. The next year, politics may shift and one party clearly outnumbers the other in supporters. Weighting to the shares of Republicans

Pollsters vary in how they weight their survey samples on political characteristics, if at all. Their choices tend to be informed by factors such as the population being surveyed and the sample source (e.g., a list of all addresses in the United States or a list of registered voters), the focus of the poll (preelection

This report explains how political weighting works, how Pew Research Center does it, and some of its limitations.

74 House members won't return next Congress – more than before any general election since 1992.

Dear Friends, Teaching about religion is essential for a comprehensive understanding of history, culture, and global society, yet many educators find the subject daunting. This collaborative workshop, featuring the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and the Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS), provides teachers with a clear, constitutionally sound framework for bringing religious literacy into the The post A Religious Literacy Framework for Educators appeared first on Tanenbaum.

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This Pew Research Center report on Israeli and Palestinian views of peaceful coexistence between Israel and an independent Palestinian state uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem. We surveyed 1,001 Israeli adults from April 5 to May 6, 2026, and 1,038 Palestinian adults from March 30

About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem under the direction of Gallup. The results are based on national samples, unless otherwise noted. Read more about our international survey methodology and country-specific sample designs. For

On military assistance to Israel, roughly half of Israeli adults say the U.S. is providing about the right amount and a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem say the U.S. is providing too much.

This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Maria Smerkovich, Research AssociateKirsten Lesage, Research AssociateJulia Armeli, Research Assistant Janakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystAlan Cooperman, Director, Religion ResearchShifra Dayak, Editorial SpecialistJonathan Evans, Senior ResearcherMoira Fagan, Senior ResearcherSneha Gubbala, Research AnalystSofia Hernandez Ramones, Research AnalystCarolyn Lau,

Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem reflect on the viability of a two-state solution

A large majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (85%) also say that opportunities for work are a major problem for them and their families.

More than 70 million people in the U.S. identify as Hispanic today, but government agencies and survey organizations don't count the Hispanic population in the same way.

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at https://www.pewresearch.org/pew-knight/. Research Kirsten Eddy, Senior ResearcherKaterina Eva Matsa, Director, News and Information Research   Michael Lipka, Associate Director, News and Information Research                Benjamin Toff,

This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The American Trends Panel survey methodology, Wave 190 Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 190 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research

Republicans and Democrats largely agree that the Trump administration and the U.S. news media have a bad relationship.

Roughly half of U.S. adults say news organizations are influenced a great deal by corporations and government interests.

U.S. adults hold a wide range of opinions on what's acceptable for news organizations to report and how the government should treat journalists.

Substantial shares of U.S. adults think the government, news organizations and social media companies intentionally keep news from reaching the public.

U.S. adults define press freedom in varying ways but many bring up the ability to report or publish information freely.

About half of U.S. adults correctly identified that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press.

Many people in the U.S. say some press freedom restrictions are OK when weighed against concerns about false information or national security.

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