river/intercept
ARacademic research team
Survey of active-duty service members on transgender military service (published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy) · Aug 2017 – Mar 31, 2018 · US national (U.S. armed forces)
Data flag. re-sourced: the original academic publication (Dunlap et al., Sexuality Research and Social Policy) rather than a news write-up: data collected August 2017 - March 2018, analytic n=486, cited item present verbatim
Methodology
- Pollster
- academic research team academic
- Sponsor
- U.S. Department of Defense (funding)
- Fielded
- Aug 2017 – Mar 31, 2018
- Population
- active-duty service members (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps)
- Sample size
- 486
- Sample frame
- river/intercept
- Mode
- respondent-driven / convenience recruitment - seed service members recruited coworkers, supplemented by advertising on military blogs and social media
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national (U.S. armed forces)
- Base notes
- 41% soldiers, 35% airmen, 14% sailors, 9% Marines; 57% white, 60% heterosexual, 66% male; ages 18-54
Sources
Verification note. Percentages and methodology as reported by Military Times summarizing the peer-reviewed article in Sexuality Research and Social Policy (published Feb. 18, 2020). This is a NONPROBABILITY convenience sample of 486 service members, not a representative survey of the force; 'unsure' responses were coded as 'no'. The journal article itself was not retrieved and the author names were not captured.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
Military serviceforced choice
whether transgender people should be allowed to serve
Should transgender people be allowed to serve in the military?
Yes, should be allowed to serve
66%
Wording notes: 'unsure' responses were recoded as 'no' by the researchers, which depresses the support figure
neutral — simple, non-leading wording; the coding decision rather than the wording is the analytic issue
Subgroup figures (7)