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Financial Times/Harris Poll reveals that Americans are more likely to Believe in God
- A Financial Times/Harris Poll surveyed adults in the United States and in five European countries, measuring their religious views on various aspects and found that Americans are more likely than Europeans to believe in any form of God or Supreme Being.
- Results showed that 73 percent of Americans believe in God or Supreme Being and 62 percent of Italians expressed this belief.
- The French are the least likely with 27 percent agreeing.
- Among those who expressed their belief in a higher being, nearly half of Americans said they follow the same religious beliefs as their parents.
- Adults in Italy (62 percent) are most likely to have the same religious beliefs as their parents.
- In Great Britain, only 35 percent said the same.
- On the subject of religion and education, 68 percent of Italians said religion should be taught in state schools
- 56 percent of British adults and Germans agreed
- Adults in the United States and France are the least likely to agree with religion being taught in state schools.
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Date: 12/26/2006
Guttmacher Institute: Results from Study on Premarital Sex
- More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study.
- The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people — about 33,000 of them women — in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth.
- According to Finer's analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
- Among women born between 1950 and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30
- those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had done so by age 44.
- By the exact age of 20 years, 77% of individuals had had sex
- By age 44, 99% of Americans had had sex
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Date: 12/24/2006
Pew Research shows the News Story for 2006 that held the most Interest for the American Public
- A recent poll shows the concerns of the American public in 2006
- 69% discussed high gas prices
- 54%-British officials stopping a terrorist plot to blow up planes flying to the US (Aug)
- 47%-death of 12 miners in West Virginia coal mine
- More foreign-based stories drew intense interest than in the preceding year.
- Terrorism again claimed a high place on the news interest list, with reports that British officials had foiled a plot to blow up transatlantic flights (54% of the public in August).
- North Korea's nuclear test announcement (45% watching very closely in October)
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Date: 12/20/2006
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