Datasets

Higher Education/Housing

Survey Details: Conducted Mar, 2010
File Release Date: 20 Dec 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• “Home Sweet Home. Still.”
• “Is College Worth It?”
• “Women See Value and Benefits of College; Men Lag on Both Fronts, Survey Finds”
• “The Digital Revolution and Higher Education”

Changing American Family

Survey Details: Conducted Oct, 2010
File Release Date: 23 Nov 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• The Decline of Marriage and Rise of New Families (11/18/10)
• A Portrait of Stepfamilies (01/13/11)
• The Public Renders a Split Verdict on Changes in Family Structure (02/16/11)
• For Millennials, Parenthood Trumps Marriage (03/09/11)

Economy

Survey Details: Conducted May, 2010
File Release Date: 21 Sep 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America (06/30/10)
• Lost Income, Lost Friends—and Loss of Self-respect (09/24/10)
• The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone (08/19/10)
• Most ‘Re-employed’ Workers Say They’re Overqualified for Their New Job (09/02/10)
• A Third of Public Says It’s Sometimes OK for Homeowners to Stop Making Mortgage Payments (09/15/10)
• One Recession, Two Americas (09/24/10)

The Millennials

Survey Details: Conducted January 2010
File Release Date: 16 Jun 11

Reports from this dataset include:

• Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change (02/24/10)
• For Millennials, Parenthood Trumps Marriage (03/09/11)

Race II

Survey Details: Conducted October-November 2009
File Release Date: 21 Jan 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• Blacks Upbeat about Black Progress, Prospects (01/12/10)
• One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic (06/04/10)

Work/Generation Gap/Woodstock

Survey Details: Conducted July-August 2009
File Release Date: 21 Jan 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Generation Gap (08/12/09)
• Recession Turns a Graying Office Grayer (09/03/09)
• Take this Job and Love It (09/17/09)
• Black-White Conflict Isn’t Society’s Largest (09/24/09)
• The Harried Life of the Working Mother (10/01/09)

Fertility/Luxury or Necessity

Survey Details: Conducted April 2009
File Release Date: 21 Jan 2011

Reports from this dataset include:

• Luxury or Necessity? The Public Makes a U-Turn (04/23/09)
• The New Demography of American Motherhood (05/06/10)
• The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone (08/19/10)

Aging

Survey Details: Conducted February- March 2009
File Release Date: 24 Aug 2010

Reports from this dataset include:

• Growing Old in America: Expectations vs. Reality (06/29/09)
• Different Age Groups, Different Recessions (05/14/09)
• Most Middle-Aged Adults Are Rethinking Retirement Plans (05/28/09)
• Nap Time (07/29/09)
• Go West, Old Man: Where Older Adults Feel Young at Heart (08/07/09)
• End-of-Life Decisions: How Americans Cope (08/20/09)
• The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household (03/18/10)

Mobility

Survey Details: Conducted October 2008
File Release Date: 4 December 2009

• Republicans: Still Happy Campers? (10/23/08)
• Americans Say They Like Diverse Communities: Election, Census Trends Suggest Otherwise (12/2/08)
• Who Moves? Who Stays Put? Where’s Home? (12/17/08)
• For Nearly Half of America, Grass is Greener Somewhere Else; Denver Tops List of Favorite Cities (01/29/09)
• McDonald’s and Starbucks:43% Yin, 35% Yang (02/10/09)
• Even as Housing Values Sink, There’s Comfort in Homeownership (02/19/09)
• Suburbs Not Most Popular, But Suburbanites Most Content (02/26/09)
• Magnet or Sticky?: A State-by-State Typology (03/11/09)
• Most Like it Hot (03/18/09)

Gender

Survey Details: Conducted June-July 2008
File Release Date: 1 October 2009

• Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader? (08/25/08)
• Revisiting the Mommy Wars: Politics, Gender and Parenthood (09/15/08)
• Women Call the Shots at Home (09/25/08)
• Public Mixed on Gender Roles in Jobs (09/25/08)
• Republicans: Still Happy Campers (10/23/08)
• Smokers Can’t Blow Off Stress (04/08/09)

Middle Class

Survey Details: Conducted January-February 2008
File Release Date: 27 April 2009

• Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life (04/09/08)
• You’re Laid Off (04/16/08)
• Who Wants to Be Rich? (04/30/08)
• Feeling Guilty (05/14/08)
• The Middle Class Blues (05/29/08)
• Baby Boomers: The Gloomiest Generation (05/25/08)
• America’s Four Middle Classes (06/29/08)

Race

Survey Details: Conducted September-October 2007
File Release Date: 5 January 2009

• Do Blacks and Hispanics Get Along? (01/31/08)
• Race, Ethnicity and Campaign ’08 (01/17/08)
• Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class (11/03/07)

Muslim Americans

Survey Details: Conducted January-April 2007
File Release Date: 22 May 2008

• Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream (05/22/07)

Marriage/Parenthood

Survey Details: Conducted February-March 2007
File Release Date: 13 November 2007

• Modern Marriage (07/18/07)
• Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work (07/12/07)
• As Marriage and Parenthood Drift Apart, Public Is Concerned about Social Impact (07/01/07)
• Motherhood Today: Tougher Challenges, Less Success (05/02/07)

Personal Finance/Social Trust

Survey Details: Conducted October-November 2006
File Release Date: 13 November 2007

• Americans and Social Trust: Who, Where and Why (02/22/07)
• What Americans Pay For – and How (02/07/07)
• We Try Hard. We Fall Short. Americans Assess Their Saving Habits (01/24/07)
• Most Americans Moderately Upbeat About Family Finances in 2007 (01/04/07)
• Luxury or Necessity? (04/23/09)
• As Home Prices Cool Down, Homeowners Temper Their Optimism (12/06/06)
• It’s Time for Holiday Shopping (11/20/06)

Work/Optimism/Cars

Survey Details: Conducted June-July 2006
File Release Date: 13 November 2007

• Working After Retirement: The Gap Between Expectations and Reality (08/21/06)
• Americans See Less Progress on Their Ladder of Life (09/14/06)
• American Work Life is Worsening, But Most Workers Still Content (08/30/06)
• As the Price of Gas Goes Up, The Nation’s Odometer Slows Down (08/08/06)
• Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids? (08/01/06)

Diet/Gambling/Movies

Survey Details: Conducted February-March 2006
File Release Date: 13 November 2007

• Americans to Rest of World: Soccer Not Really Our Thing (06/14/06)
• Gambling: As the Take Rises, So Does Public Concern (05/23/06)
• Increasingly, Americans Prefer Going to the Movies at Home (05/16/06)
• Once Again, The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be (05/02/06)
• In the Battle of the Bulge, More Soldiers Than Successes (04/26/06)
• Eating More; Enjoying Less (04/19/06)
• Americans See Weight Problems Everywhere But In the Mirror (04/11/06)
• A Barometer of Modern Morals (03/28/06)

Family Bonds

Survey Details: Conducted October-November 2005
File Release Date: 13 November 2007

• Calling Mom (05/09/06)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (03/14/06)
• Gauging Family Intimacy (05/07/06)
• Who’s Feeling Rushed (02/28/06)
• Families Drawn Together By Communication Revolution (02/21/06)
• Are We Happy Yet? (02/13/06)
• Baby Boomers: From the Age of Aquarius to the Age of Responsibility (12/08/05)