ANES 2016 Time Series Study - pre-election wave · Sep 7, 2016 – Nov 7, 2016 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- ANES academic
- Sponsor
- American National Election Studies
- Fielded
- Sep 7, 2016 – Nov 7, 2016
- Population
- adult citizens
- Sample size
- 4,271
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- dual-mode: in-person CAPI (n=1,181) and self-administered web (n=3,090), address-based sample recruited by mail
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- ANES full-sample pre-election weight (V160101); weights required for population inference; average design effect 1.45 (combined pre-election sample)
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 4,271 pre-election interviews: 1,181 face-to-face and 3,090 online
Sources
Verification note. Question wording copied verbatim from the ANES 2016 pre-election questionnaire (item TRANSPOLICY_RESTRM). Percentages are the UNWEIGHTED marginal frequencies printed in the Berkeley SDA HTML codebook for the ANES 2016 Time Series (variables v161228, v161228a, v161228x); ANES publishes no weighted topline, so these are not weighted population estimates. Field dates, n, mode, response rate and design effect from the ANES 2016 Methodology Report 'features at a glance' table. Release date is approximate (month precision not certain).
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
ANES variable V161228 (TRANSPOLICY_RESTRM) - transgender bathroom policy, forced choice
Should transgender people -- that is, people who identify themselves as the sex or gender different from the one they were born as -- have to use the bathrooms of the gender they were born as, or should they be allowed to use the bathrooms of their identified gender?
Have to use the bathrooms of the gender they were born with
51.5%
Be allowed to use the bathrooms of their identified gender
48.5%
Wording notes: defines 'transgender people' inside the question stem | no explicit middle/no-opinion option offered | response option order randomized forward/reverse
neutral — both alternatives are stated in parallel and the response order was randomized; the in-stem definition is descriptive rather than evaluative
ANES summary variable V161228x - transgender bathroom policy combined with strength of opinion (6-point)
IF R OPINION ON TRANSGENDER USE OF RESTROOMS OF IDENTIFIED GENDER IS NOT DK/RF:
How strongly do you feel about that? [Very strongly, moderately strongly, or slightly strongly / Slightly strongly, moderately strongly or very strongly]?
Feel very strongly - bathroom of the gender born with
36%
Feel very strongly - bathroom of identified gender
20.7%
Feel moderately strongly - bathroom of identified gender
19.7%
Feel moderately strongly - bathroom of the gender born with
11.6%
Feel a little strongly - bathroom of identified gender
8%
Feel a little strongly - bathroom of the gender born with
3.9%
Wording notes: branching strength follow-up, folded into a 6-point summary scale with no midpoint
neutral — standard ANES branching strength probe