probability panel
AP-NORC
The May 2025 AP-NORC Center Poll (second May wave, AmeriSpeak Omnibus) · May 15–19, 2025 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- AP-NORC media
- Sponsor
- The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago
- Fielded
- May 15–19, 2025
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,122
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- NORC AmeriSpeak Panel
- Mode
- AmeriSpeak Omnibus - self-administered web plus telephone
- Margin of error
- +/- 4.2 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, including the design effect (6.1 pts Democrats, 6.4 pts Republicans, 9.9 pts independents)
- Weighting
- poststratification to age, gender, census division, race/ethnicity, education, and 2024 presidential vote; targets from the 2024 Current Population Survey and final 2024 presidential vote results
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,033 completed via the web and 89 by telephone
Sources
Verification note. Wording and Total percentages copied from the AP-NORC second-May-2025-wave topline PDF. No accompanying AP-NORC report page was located for this wave, so no release date and no party crosstab are recorded.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
trans women/girls in professional women's sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? Professional sports
Should not
73%
Should
26%
Skipped/refused
1%
Wording notes: no middle option | asks only about trans girls and women, not trans boys and men
neutral — 'should or should not be allowed' is a standard symmetric construction; the one-sided focus on trans women reflects the policy debate rather than loaded wording
trans women/girls in college women's sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? College sports
Should not
73%
Should
26%
Skipped/refused
1%
Wording notes: no middle option
neutral — symmetric should/should not construction
trans women/girls in high school girls' sports
[GRID ITEMS RANDOMIZED]
Do you think transgender girls and women should or should not be allowed to participate in each of the following girls and women's sports? High school sports
Should not
72%
Should
27%
Skipped/refused
1%
Wording notes: no middle option
neutral — symmetric should/should not construction