A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Among the tools that survey researchers use to gain a deeper understanding of ...

Data allows businesspeople and other individuals such as researchers to develop products or services or understand particular issues. How people gather this data, however, varies based on situational ...

This study included six open-ended questions: Researchers manually coded each of the 375,834 open-ended answers into one of four categories: responsive to the question; does not match the question; ...

Every poll involves a questionnaire that contains a standardized set of questions that are asked of every person. The way a question is asked can affect the answers that people give. In an open-ended ...