Transgender Polling Archive
mixed-mode probability

ANES

ANES 2020 Time Series Study - pre-election wave · Aug 18, 2020 – Nov 2, 2020 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
ANES academic
Sponsor
American National Election Studies
Fielded
Aug 18, 2020 – Nov 2, 2020
Population
adult citizens
Sample size
8,280
Sample frame
mixed-mode probability
Mode
self-administered web, plus telephone and live video interviews; address-based sample recruited by mail
Margin of error
not disclosed
Weighting
ANES 2020 full-sample pre-election weight (V200010a); average pre-election design effect 1.85
Geography
US national
Base notes
8,280 pre-election interviews across five sample groups (fresh ABS web, fresh ABS web/phone, fresh ABS video/web/phone, 2016 ANES panel, and 2020 GSS re-interviews)

Sources

Verification note. Wording copied verbatim from the ANES 2020 pre-election questionnaire (item TRANSPOLICY_RESTRM). Percentages are UNWEIGHTED marginal frequencies printed in the Berkeley SDA HTML codebook for the ANES 2020 Time Series full release (V201409, V201410, V201411x); they are not weighted population estimates. Methodology from the ANES 2020 Methodology Report 'features at a glance' table.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (2)

Bathrooms & facilitiesforced choicein a trend series
ANES variable V201409 (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?

Be allowed to use the bathrooms of their identified gender
53.2%
Have to use the bathrooms of the gender they were born as
46.8%

Wording notes: defines 'transgender people' inside the question stem | no explicit middle/no-opinion option offered

neutral — both alternatives stated in parallel; identical wording to 2016, preserving the trend

Bathrooms & facilitiesforced choicein a trend series
ANES summary variable V201411x - transgender bathroom policy folded with strength (6-point)

IF R OPINION ON TRANSGENDER USE OF RESTROOMS OF IDENTIFIED GENDER IS NOT DK/RF:

How strongly do you feel that way? [Very strongly, moderately, or a little / A little, moderately, or very strongly]?

Feels very strongly transgender people should use bathroom of birth gender
30.1%
Feels very strongly transgender people be allowed to use bathroom of identified gender
22.3%
Feels moderately strongly transgender people be allowed to use bathroom of identified gender
20.5%
Feels moderately strongly transgender people should use bathroom of birth gender
11.3%
Feels a little strongly transgender people be allowed to use bathroom of identified gender
10.4%
Feels a little strongly transgender people should use bathroom of birth gender
5.4%

Wording notes: branching strength follow-up folded into a 6-point scale with no midpoint

neutral — standard ANES branching strength probe

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