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4 sourced facts about surveys, censuses and public-opinion research, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.

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The basics

About how many people does the long-running General Social Survey interview in a typical wave?

Answerabout 3,000

Run by NORC at the University of Chicago every other year, it's a benchmark for tracking American attitudes over time.

Source: Wikipedia (General Social Survey) (2022) en.wikipedia.org

Going deeper

About how many housing-unit addresses does the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey sample each year?

Answerabout 3.5 million

It's one of the largest ongoing household surveys in the world, replacing the old Census 'long form.'

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (via Wikipedia) (2024) en.wikipedia.org

Across many types of surveys, typical response rates have fallen to roughly what share of people contacted in recent years?

Answerabout 10%

Falling response rates are one of the biggest challenges facing modern survey research.

Source: Wikipedia (Opinion polling) (2023) en.wikipedia.org

Expert level

About how much did the official U.S. population count grow between the 2010 and 2020 Census?

Answerabout 7.4%

The 2020 Census counted 331,449,281 people, one of the slower decade-over-decade growth rates in U.S. history.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau (via Wikipedia) (2020) en.wikipedia.org

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