probability panel
AP-NORC
The February 2024 AAPI Data/AP-NORC Center Poll · Feb 5–14, 2024 · US national (Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults)
Methodology
- Pollster
- AP-NORC media
- Sponsor
- The AP-NORC Center and AAPI Data with funding from the University of California, Riverside
- Commissioned by
- AAPI Data / UC Riverside
- Fielded
- Feb 5–14, 2024
- Population
- Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults
- Sample size
- 1,172
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- NORC Amplify AAPI Panel
- Mode
- Amplify AAPI Monthly survey drawing on NORC's Amplify AAPI Panel, a blend of sample designs: roughly 850 AANHPI panelists recruited from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, a 2022 pilot of 150 households, 1,150 California panelists recruited in 2023 with Blue Shield Foundation of California and UC Riverside/AAPI Data funding, and a Rockefeller Foundation-funded national recruitment of 4,700 panelists including respondents from the 2022 Pew Asian American Survey; web with telephone option
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.9 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect
- Weighting
- poststratification on age, gender, census region, race/ethnicity, education, U.S. born, and Asian origin; targets from the 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year data; weighted to the U.S. AANHPI household population
- Geography
- US national (Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults)
- Base notes
- 1,168 completed via the web and 4 by telephone; 40 interviews removed in quality-assurance checks prior to weighting
Sources
Verification note. Wording and Total percentages copied from the February 2024 AAPI Data/AP-NORC topline PDF. This is the richest transgender battery AP-NORC has fielded, but it was asked only of AANHPI adults, so the figures are not comparable to AP-NORC's general-population numbers. Release date inferred from the March 2024 upload path and not confirmed from a primary source; response rate not stated in the methods section of the topline.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (6)
access to gender-affirming care: Gender-affirming counseling or therapy for adults aged 18 and older
[HALF OF RESPONDENTS SHOWN RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose transgender and non-binary people having access to each of the following under medical supervision? Gender-affirming counseling or therapy for adults aged 18 and older
Strongly/somewhat favor (NET) 56%
Wording notes: 'under medical supervision' clause supplies a safeguard cue | explicit middle option | half sample shown response options in reverse order
neutral — symmetric scale with a stated middle option; the 'under medical supervision' clause is an affirming cue but is applied identically across items
insurance coverage of transgender-related medical care: Coverage by private health insurance companies
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED; HALF OF RESPONDENTS SHOWN RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose each of the following covering transgender-related medical care? Coverage by private health insurance companies
Strongly/somewhat favor (NET) 50%
Wording notes: grid items randomized; half sample shown response options in reverse order | 'transgender-related medical care' is not defined in this item, though the preceding GENDERCARE battery had just described specific treatments
neutral — symmetric scale with a middle option; the undefined term is a measurement limitation rather than a directional tilt
insurance coverage of transgender-related medical care: Coverage by public health insurance programs for adults like Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED; HALF OF RESPONDENTS SHOWN RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose each of the following covering transgender-related medical care? Coverage by public health insurance programs for adults like Medicare, Medicaid or Tricare
Strongly/somewhat favor (NET) 45%
Wording notes: grid items randomized; half sample shown response options in reverse order | 'transgender-related medical care' is not defined in this item, though the preceding GENDERCARE battery had just described specific treatments
neutral — symmetric scale with a middle option; the undefined term is a measurement limitation rather than a directional tilt
insurance coverage of transgender-related medical care: Coverage by state public health insurance programs for minors under the age of 18
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED; HALF OF RESPONDENTS SHOWN RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose each of the following covering transgender-related medical care? Coverage by state public health insurance programs for minors under the age of 18
Strongly/somewhat favor (NET) 42%
Wording notes: grid items randomized; half sample shown response options in reverse order | 'transgender-related medical care' is not defined in this item, though the preceding GENDERCARE battery had just described specific treatments
neutral — symmetric scale with a middle option; the undefined term is a measurement limitation rather than a directional tilt
perceived ease of access to gender-affirming care in one's community
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED; HALF OF RESPONDENTS SHOWN RESPONSE OPTIONS IN REVERSE ORDER]
Thinking about people's ability to access each of the following, do you generally think it is: too easy or too difficult for people in your community to get these services, or is people's access to these services about right? Gender affirming medical care for transgender and non-binary people
About right
38%
Too difficult
37%
Too easy
21%
Skipped/refused
3%
Wording notes: asked in a grid with family planning, abortion, and prenatal care, which frames gender-affirming care as a reproductive-health service | 'too easy' is an unusual construction for a health-access item and imports the restrictionist premise as one pole | grid items randomized; half sample shown response options in reverse order
neutral — both directions are offered with a stated midpoint; 'too easy' is a loaded-sounding pole but is the necessary symmetric counterpart to 'too difficult'
personally knowing a transgender or non-binary person
Aside from acquaintances, do you personally know anyone who is transgender or non-binary? Please select all that apply.
No
57%
Yes, someone else
33%
Yes, a close friend
8%
Yes, a family member
5%
Yes, I am
2%
Wording notes: includes a 'Yes, I am' self-identification option inside a contact question | 'aside from acquaintances' narrows the definition of knowing someone
neutral — standard contact measure; folding self-identification into the same item is unusual but transparently reported