The Pew study can also very well treat people who attend Chabad Houses as “Ultra Orthodox,” since Chabad is considered chasidic/ultra-orthodox (in spite of the group’s relative comfort and ease with modernity, the internet, etc.) Many times, you can end up with someone who drives on shabbos (Chabad doesn’t actively discourage people from driving on shabbos, unlike Young Israel) but learns Lessons in Tanya or Sichos in English and considers himself a Chasid of the Rebbe.
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