probability RDD
CNN
CNN/ORC Poll 6, April-May 2016 · Apr 28, 2016 – May 2016 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- CNN media
- Sponsor
- CNN
- Commissioned by
- CNN
- Fielded
- Apr 28, 2016 – May 2016
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,001
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - live interviewers calling both landline and cell phones
- Margin of error
- plus or minus 3 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted to national Census figures for gender, race, age, education, region of country, and telephone usage
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 601 landline and 400 cell phone interviews; the sample also includes 890 registered voters (+/- 3.5 points)
Sources
Verification note. Verbatim wording, totals and party breaks read from PollingReport.com's transcription of the CNN/ORC release. The original CNN topline PDF could not be located (CNN's pre-2018 poll PDFs are no longer served from cdn.cnn.com and CDX enumeration timed out), so the pollster's own release was not reached directly. || Wording, toplines, methodology and full crosstabs read directly from the CNN/ORC release PDF (downloaded and text-extracted locally). This is the poll Gallup singled out as producing a very different answer from its own forced-choice restroom item fielded the same week - the two are a natural question-wording experiment on the same event.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
laws requiring facility use matching gender at birth
Overall, would you say you favor or oppose laws that require transgender individuals to use facilities that correspond to their gender at birth rather than their gender identity?
Wording notes: uses 'gender at birth' contrasted with 'gender identity' | asks about the restrictive law rather than about access
neutral — Standard favor/oppose on a named policy; both 'gender at birth' and 'gender identity' are named, so the contrast is symmetric.
Subgroup figures (32)
equal-protection laws for transgender people in jobs, housing, public accommodations
Overall, do you favor or oppose laws that guarantee equal protection for transgender people in jobs, housing and public accommodations?
Wording notes: 'guarantee equal protection' is a positively valenced framing
tilts_affirming — 'guarantee equal protection' invokes a widely endorsed constitutional value, which tends to lift support relative to more concrete policy descriptions; the favor/oppose structure itself is balanced.
Subgroup figures (15)
knowing a transgender family member or close friend
Do you happen to have a family member or close friend who is transgender?
Wording notes: restricts to family member or close friend, excluding coworkers and acquaintances
neutral — Simple factual self-report; the narrow 'family member or close friend' frame yields lower contact estimates than broader wordings used by other pollsters.
Subgroup figures (10)