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Bellwether Research statewide Indiana survey for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce · Dec 2–9, 2015 · US: Indiana
Data flag. SPONSOR AND DATES WRONG. Corroborating WFYI coverage gives the sponsor as 'Indiana Competes' (a 350+ business coalition), not the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce as recorded, and the field window as December 2-9 2015, not the single day 2015-12-01 stored. n=1,295 is available but recorded as unknown. The 62% support figure is correct. The originally cited nwitimes.com URL is now paywalled. | corrected from a single-day 2015-12-01 | true window Dec 2-9 2015 per WFYI | corrected from 'Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce'; WFYI names Indiana Competes, a 350+ business coalition, as the sponsor | recorded as unknown; the source gives n=1,295
Methodology
- Pollster
- Bellwether Research & Consulting commercial
- Sponsor
- Indiana Competes (business coalition)
- Commissioned by
- Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
- Fielded
- Dec 2–9, 2015
- Population
- unknown
- Sample size
- 1,295
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- not disclosed
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US: Indiana
Sources
Verification note. Percentages transcribed from the Northwest Indiana Times write-up (Dan Carden, 27 Dec 2015), whose article body is served ROT47-obfuscated and was decoded in this session. No Bellwether topline was located: the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce release is offline, and the only Bellwether Indiana December 2015 document found on the open web (Scribd doc 293036850, uploaded by Bellwether president Christine Matthews) is a two-page Republican presidential primary topline that does not contain the civil-rights items. Field dates, sample size, mode, population base and margin of error were not published in any retrievable source; only the month (December 2015) is documented. Question wording is a news paraphrase, not the instrument. The same release also reported that 80 percent of Republicans already believed Indiana law barred discrimination against gays and lesbians, and that nearly 50 percent would be less likely to vote for a legislator who opposed an anti-discrimination law (22 percent more likely, 27 percent no effect); those items are not recorded as questions because as reported they do not name gender identity, and 'nearly 50' is not an exact figure.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
Nondiscriminationparaphrasedsupport/oppose
adding sexual orientation and gender identity to Indiana's protected classes
[Paraphrase from news write-up; instrument not published] Do you support or oppose making it illegal to discriminate against LGBT citizens - that is, adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the seven protected classes in Indiana's existing civil rights laws?
Wording reconstructed from: Paraphrase reconstructed from the Northwest Indiana Times report, 27 Dec 2015: 'In the Bellwether poll, 62 percent of respondents said they strongly or somewhat support making it illegal to generally discriminate against LGBT citizens. Just 34 percent oppose adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the seven protected classes in Indiana's existing civil rights laws.' The Bellwether instrument was not retrievable.
Wording notes: exact wording not published | support side and oppose side described under two different framings in the source
unclear — The instrument was never published, so the wording cannot be assessed. The news account itself describes the support side as 'making it illegal to generally discriminate' and the oppose side as 'adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the seven protected classes', which are not symmetric descriptions.
Subgroup figures (3)