Continued partisan divides on colleges, unions, church buildings
Pew Analysis Heart performed this examine to look at Individuals’ views of various nationwide establishments. For this evaluation, we surveyed 5,140 U.S. adults from Jan. 16 to Jan. 21, 2024. Everybody who took half on this survey is a member of the Heart’s American Developments Panel (ATP), a web based survey panel that’s recruited via nationwide, random sampling of residential addresses. This fashion almost all U.S. adults have an opportunity of choice. The survey is weighted to be consultant of the U.S. grownup inhabitants by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, schooling and different classes. Learn extra concerning the ATP’s methodology.
Listed below are the questions used for this report, together with responses, and the survey methodology.
Individuals overwhelmingly see small companies as having a constructive impact on the way in which issues are going within the nation.
Against this, their views of huge firms are broadly destructive. Most individuals – together with an identical shares in each events – are also crucial of the impression of banks and monetary establishments.
A brand new nationwide survey performed by Pew Analysis Heart from Jan. 16 to Jan. 21 amongst 5,140 adults additionally finds:
The U.S. army is considered positively by 60% of Individuals, and these views are comparable throughout most demographic and political teams.
There are broad partisan divides on the impression of academic establishments, each Okay-12 public colleges and schools and universities:
- About three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents view schools and universities positively, however solely about three-in-ten Republicans and Republican leaners give these establishments constructive marks. The partisan divide on Okay-12 public colleges is about as broad.
Church buildings and non secular organizations are considered positively by about six-in-ten Individuals, however there are sizeable variations in these views between Republicans and Democrats, in addition to between the religiously affiliated and the religiously unaffiliated:
- Almost three-quarters of Republicans (73%) say church buildings and non secular establishments have a constructive impression. Democrats’ opinions are extra divided: 45% say their impact is constructive, 53% say it’s destructive.
- And whereas religiously affiliated Individuals typically charge the impression of organized faith positively, the views of unaffiliated Individuals are extra destructive.
Views of the impact of labor unions additionally differ significantly by celebration:
- Three-quarters of Democrats, in contrast with simply 35% of Republicans, say unions have a constructive impression on how issues are entering into the USA lately.
Discover extra detailed seems to be at demographic and political variations in Individuals’ views of the impression of every of those establishments:
