Anna Brown

The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today How lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults view the impact of Obergefell and social acceptance for LGBTQ people more broadly 10 years after the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex...

Belated congrats to my Pew Research colleagues on publishing this groundbreaking study - one of the first surveys to have a probability-based sample of transgender adults large enough to reliably report their views and experiences. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’ Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.

Last year we encountered a strange glitch in one of our surveys…the word “yes” was being replaced with the word “forks” in response options. Read on to learn how we unraveled what was causing it, how we ensured it didn’t impact the data quality, and what to do if it happens to you!

Who Are You? The Art and Science of Measuring Identity As a shop that studies human behavior through surveys and other social scientific techniques, we have a good line of sight into the contradictory nature of human preferences. Here's a look at how we c...

And here's how Pew Research Center asks about race and ethnicity www.pewresearch.org/methods/2024...

What Census Calls Us Explore the different race, ethnicity and origin categories used in the U.S. decennial census, from the first one in 1790 to the latest count in 2020.

Good time to reflect on all the ways the census race and ethnicity questions have changed over the years www.pewresearch.org/interactives...

Next U.S. census will have new boxes for 'Middle Eastern or North African,' 'Latino' Biden officials approved proposals for the U.S. census and federal surveys to change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and to add a checkbox for

Big news from Census yesterday www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1...

No Box to Check: When the Census Doesn’t Reflect You Most people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are classified as “white” in U.S. census data. Thousands of respondents to a Times survey told us how they actually identify.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...