mixed-mode probability
AP-NORC
MTV/AP-NORC Poll of people age 13 to 56 · Sep 2021 – Sep 19, 2021 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- AP-NORC media
- Sponsor
- MTV (Paramount) with the AP-NORC Center
- Commissioned by
- MTV
- Fielded
- Sep 2021 – Sep 19, 2021
- Population
- people age 13 to 56 (teens and adults)
- Sample size
- 3,764
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Panel
- NORC AmeriSpeak and AmeriSpeak Teen; Dynata opt-in panel
- Mode
- mixed: AmeriSpeak probability panel (web and telephone) combined with Dynata opt-in web panel, blended using NORC TrueNorth calibration
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.3 percentage points for the combined sample at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (+/- 4.3 pts for the AmeriSpeak probability portion alone)
- Weighting
- raking on age, gender, census region, race/ethnicity, and education to 2020 Current Population Survey totals; nonprobability sample additionally calibrated with NORC TrueNorth small-area-estimation calibration using four key survey variables and ACS covariates
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Probability portion: 939 AmeriSpeak adults age 18-56 and 488 AmeriSpeak Teen panelists age 13-17. Nonprobability portion: 2,337 Dynata opt-in interviews (1,170 age 13-17 and 1,167 age 18-56). Teens age 13-17 included, so this is not an adults-only sample.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and Total percentages copied from the MTV/AP-NORC topline PDF. Release month taken from the December 2021 upload path and press-release file name; exact release day not confirmed. Note this is a hybrid probability/nonprobability sample of people 13-56, not a general adult sample.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
prohibiting workplace discrimination based on gender identity
[ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose each of the following? Prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of gender identity
Strongly/somewhat favor (NET) 59%
Wording notes: asked in a grid with defunding police, UBI, vaccine mandates, border security, and an assault-weapons ban
neutral — policy stated plainly with a symmetric scale; 'discrimination' carries a negative valence but is the standard legal term
positive/negative view of transgender people as a group
[ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Would you say you have a positive, negative, or neither positive nor negative view of each of the following groups? Transgender people
Very positive
23%
Somewhat positive
14%
Somewhat negative
12%
Very negative
9%
Neither positive nor negative
41%
Very/somewhat positive (NET) 38%Somewhat/very negative (NET) 21%
Wording notes: asked in a randomized grid alongside feminists, Republicans, Democrats, political independents, gay or lesbian people, and vaccinated/unvaccinated people
neutral — symmetric positive/negative scale with an explicit neutral midpoint