Methodology
Describes Wave 198 of Pew’s American Trends Panel: a nationally representative survey conducted 24–30 August 2026, with 5,166 responses from 5,602 sampled panelists, and details on weighting and fieldwork.
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How synthetic polling results change based on the AI model
Survey experiments using Opus 4.6 and GPT‑5.1 produced markedly different synthetic public‑opinion results, with neither model’s output matching actual human survey benchmarks, highlighting model-dependent distortions in AI polling.
How well synthetic polls capture the diversity of public opinion
Synthetic poll respondents were likelier than humans to converge on a single answer or skip response options, indicating reduced diversity and response variability in AI‑generated survey data versus human respondents.
Appendix: Who Is Part of an Online Community?
Appendix material defining who counts as part of an online community, supplied as supplementary documentation to a Pew Research Center study of online community membership and behaviours.
Social Media Platform Use Around the World
Global data on social media platform use shows Facebook typically remains the most-used platform worldwide, followed by Instagram, with lower overall penetration for TikTok, X and Snapchat.
Acknowledgments
Lists the report’s authors and editorial leads: Luis Noé‑Bustamante, Mark Hugo Lopez, Carolyne Im, Gabriel Piña and Joseph Copeland, with editorial guidance from Sahana Mukherjee and Jocelyn Kiley.
Religion weekly update, Oct. 7, 2026
A weekly digest compiles the Pew Research Center’s latest religion and public life work, covering recent studies and media mentions on topics from legal battles over abortion access to cultural trends such as astrology gatherings in the US.
Appendix A: Detailed Tables
Appendix A provides the detailed tables supporting Pew’s report findings, with disaggregated data and statistical breakdowns underlying the main analyses.
Appendix: Additional Charts
Provides additional charts accompanying the main Pew report; the appendix offers further graphical breakdowns and supplementary data visualisations (no blurb supplied).
Weekly: 10.3.26
Weekly roundup of Pew Research Center findings, including data on payment preferences: just 16% of Americans say they prefer cash for in-person payments, with the remainder favouring cards or other methods.
Appendix A: Model prompt text
Appendix A reproduces the model prompt text used to generate synthetic survey respondents, including the respondent role, profile JSON placeholder and the sequence of previously seen questions provided to the AI agents.
Latter-day Saints are highly religious, though not uniformly so
Latter‑day Saints are generally highly religious but with variation: members in the Mountain region and those with higher education levels report especially high religiosity, so observance is not uniform across the group.
Latter-day Saints largely identify as Republican but stand out from their partisan peers on diversity issues
While Latter‑day Saints largely identify as Republican, 75% of Latter‑day Saint Republicans say racial and ethnic diversity strengthens the country versus about 60% of Republicans overall, marking them as more favourable on this issue.
Appendix C: Full list of variables in profile information
Appendix C lists all variables used in the study’s profile information, specifying items included in the standard and extended profiles and noting which survey batteries and variables were excluded from analysis.
Appendix B: Additional tables
Appendix B provides additional tables supporting the main Pew report, presenting extended quantitative breakdowns and cross-tabulations referenced in the principal analysis for readers seeking detailed numerical results.
Latter-day Saints have strong communal ties and high social trust
About 48% of Latter‑day Saints say most people can be trusted, compared with 34% of U.S. adults overall, indicating higher social trust among this religious group.
Latter-day Saints: Happy in their family lives, traditional in gender roles
Latter‑day Saints report higher family life satisfaction and are more likely than many Americans to marry within their religion, reflecting stronger family orientation and traditional gender role attitudes.
Lifelong Latter-day Saints are more religious than both former members and converts
Individuals raised in the Latter‑day Saint church who remain members are more religious than those who left or who converted, and their demographics differ in notable ways from former members and converts.
How Brazilians view their country ahead of 2026 elections
Polling ahead of Brazil’s Oct 4, 2026 elections identifies four key public views on the country’s state and its principal trading partners, offering insights into voter sentiment and international priorities before the vote.
Tradition and Change Among Latter-day Saints in the U.S.
US members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remain highly religious and politically conservative, but the study finds emerging demographic and social shifts within the faith community pointing to change over time.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements lists the researchers and staff who contributed to the report, naming primary researchers, data labs personnel and methodological contributors involved in analysis and development.
Appendix: Detailed tables
Detailed tables accompanying a Pew Research Center project provide the underlying numeric data and cross‑tabulations used in the report’s analyses (appendix material rather than narrative findings).