Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Datasets

Pew Research Center makes the case-level microdata for much of its research available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. These datasets are listed below by collection date. A listing of our American Trends Panel datasets and religion datasets are also available. See this post for more information on how to use our datasets and contact us at info@pewresearch.org with any questions.

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    Middle Class

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

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    Gender

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

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    2008 News Coverage Index

    The 2008 NCI data set totals 69,942 stories. The Index sample includes 48 outlets (34 or 35 each weekday with some rotation), every Monday through Sunday. These outlets come from the five main sectors of mainstream media – print, network TV, cable TV, online and radio.

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    2008 Additional Content Studies

    PEJ offers topline data for additional content-based reports. The focus of these opportunistic studies ranged from how the media covered the 2008 election to health care in the news and much more.

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    2007 News Coverage Index

    The 2007 NCI data set totals 70,737 stories. The Index sample includes 48 outlets (35 each weekday with some rotation), every Sunday through Friday. The outlets studies come from the five main sectors of mainstream media – print, network TV, cable TV, online and radio.

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    2008 Campaign Coverage Index

    The CCI is based on a sub-set of PEJ’s 2008 NCI – all the stores from Jan. 1 through Nov. 3, 2008, that were primarily about the 2008 presidential campaign. The 2008 CCI data set totals 18,836 stories.

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