The Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project studies behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives, including family, community, health, finance, work and leisure. The project explores these topics by combining original public opinion survey research with social, economic and demographic data analysis.

It is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues. The Pew Research Center is an independent subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Staff

Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Center, directs Pew Social & Demographic Trends. From 1996 through 2003, he served as president and board chairman of the Alliance for Better Campaigns. Before that, he was a newspaper reporter for 25 years, the last 14 at The Washington Post, where he covered national politics and served as a foreign correspondent. From 1992-1995, he was the Post's bureau chief in South Africa and reported on the historic transformation from apartheid to democracy. He also covered four U.S. presidential campaigns.

D'Vera Cohn

D'Vera Cohn is a Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center. She was a Washington Post reporter for 21 years, mainly writing about demographics, and was the newspaper's lead reporter for the 2000 Census. After leaving the newspaper in 2006, she served as a consultant and freelance writer for the Pew Hispanic Center, Brookings Institution and Population Reference Bureau. She also has advised the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism on demographic topics, and has spoken at national journalism conferences about how reporters can make use of demographic data in stories. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she is a former Nieman Fellow.

Rich Morin

Rich Morin is a Senior Editor at the Pew Research Center. He is a veteran newsman and pollster with more than 30 years experience in newspaper journalism. Before joining the Pew Research Center, he served as polling editor, staff writer, and columnist for The Washington Post.

Kim Parker

Kim Parker is a Senior Researcher with the Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project.  From 1996-2001 she was Research Director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.  Prior to that, she worked at the American Enterprise Institute.  She graduated from Trinity College and has a Masters Degree from Georgetown University.

Wendy Wang

Wendy Wang is a Research Associate at the Pew Research Center, where she assists in the development of survey questionnaires, performs statistical analyses, assembles tables and graphics, and helps write and review reports. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, where her research concentrated on demography and gender, work and family. Her dissertation looks at fathers’ childcare time using the American Time Use Survey. She has published articles in Journal of Marriage and Family and Social Indicators Research.

Other Bios

Pew Social & Demographic Trends is one of seven projects that comprise the Pew Research Center (PRC). Research publications on this website may reflect collaboration and co-authorship with staff members from other PRC projects. Bios of interest from those projects may be found on their respective websites:

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
The Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism
The Pew Internet & American Life Project
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Pew Global Attitudes Project
Pew Hispanic Center