Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center is the nonpartisan American think tank referring to itself as a "fact tank" based in Washington, D.C.

It authorises information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States as well as the world. It also conducts public conception polling, demographic research, calls people randomly through their cell phone together with landline numbers, media content analysis, and other empirical social science research.

The Pew Research Center does not do policy positions, and is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

History

In 1990, the Times Mirror Company founded the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press as a research project, tasked with conducting polls on politics and policy. Andrew Kohut became its director in 1993, and The Pew Charitable Trusts became its primary sponsor in 1996, when it was renamed the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

In 2004, the trust determining the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Kohut stepped down as president and became founding director, and Alan Murray became thepresident of the center. In October 2014, Michael Dimock, a 14-year veteran of the Pew Research Center, was named president.