Posts – Page 33 – The Survey Center on American Life

The Survey Center on American Life at AEI teamed up with researchers at NORC at the University of Chicago to measure religious affiliation and attendance both before the pandemic (2018 to March 2020) and again in spring 2022, revealing who remained at the pews, who returned to the pews, and who left. Continue Reading →

Survey Reports

Daniel A. Cox, Sam Pressler
August 22, 2024

Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life

Disconnected: Places and Spaces presents new survey findings that suggest Americans are less connected than ever before. Continue Reading →

Daniel A. Cox, Kyle Gray, Kelsey Eyre Hammond
May 28, 2024

An Unsettled Electorate: How Uncertainty and Apathy Are Shaping the 2024 Election

A survey of more than 6,500 US adults focused on the 2024 presidential election reveals a pessimistic and unsettled American electorate fractured by education, ideology, class, and gender. Continue Reading →

Generation Z and the Transformation of American Adolescence Cover Image

Daniel A. Cox, Kelsey Eyre Hammond, Kyle Gray
November 9, 2023

Generation Z and the Transformation of American Adolescence: How Gen Z’s Formative Experiences Shape Its Politics, Priorities, and Future

This report explores the foundational differences between American generations through their formative adolescent experiences. Continue Reading →

Young man sitting in a dark room before a wall featuring various conspiracy theory-related items illuminated by a computer screen

Daniel A. Cox, M. Anthony Mills, Ian R. Banks, Kelsey Eyre Hammond, Kyle Gray
September 28, 2023

America’s Crisis of Confidence: Rising Mistrust, Conspiracies, and Vaccine Hesitancy After COVID-19

America is experiencing a crosscutting crisis of expertise and scientific distrust accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic that poses significant challenges to democratic debate and public decision-making Continue Reading →

Fewer Americans are Attending Church but Congress Remains Largely Christian

Kevin McCarthy Can’t Give Republican Rebels What They Really Want

The New Case for Social Climbing

Want to be Healthier? Hang Out With Your Friends.

Church Attendance Dropped Among Young People, Singles, Liberals

Will Young People Save American Democracy from Republican Authoritarians? It’s not that Simple

COVID-19 Ravaged Worship Attendance, but Affiliation Steady, Study Finds

More Americans Stay Away from Church as Pandemic Nears Year Three

Another Way Lockdowns Hurt People: Dragging them Away from Church

Faith After the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Changed American Religion

Survey Reports

Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life

An Unsettled Electorate: How Uncertainty and Apathy Are Shaping the 2024 Election

Generation Z and the Transformation of American Adolescence: How Gen Z’s Formative Experiences Shape Its Politics, Priorities, and Future

America’s Crisis of Confidence: Rising Mistrust, Conspiracies, and Vaccine Hesitancy After COVID-19

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