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CECooperative Election Study (CES)
CCES 2017 Common Content (off-year post-election wave) · Nov 8, 2017 – Dec 13, 2017 · US national (large enough for state-level estimates)
Methodology
- Pollster
- Cooperative Election Study (CES) academic
- Sponsor
- Harvard University (CES/CCES consortium of university research teams)
- Fielded
- Nov 8, 2017 – Dec 13, 2017
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 18,200
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov (with Disqo, Prodege and Generation Lab panels in some years)
- Mode
- online - YouGov matched random sample: a target sample is drawn from the American Community Survey / Current Population Survey frame and matched to YouGov opt-in panelists, then weighted by propensity score and raked
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- commonweight (2017: weights_common) - propensity-score matched sample weighted and raked to age, gender, education, race, Hispanic origin, voter registration status and presidential vote
- Geography
- US national (large enough for state-level estimates)
- Base notes
- Off-year CES: a single post-election common-content wave
Sources
Verification note. Wording copied verbatim from the CCES 2017 Common Content Questionnaire (item CC17_341F in the CC17_341 grid). Percentages were computed by this agent from the public-use microdata ('Common Content Data.tab', n=18,200) using the released survey weight weights_common; raw unweighted counts are given in the n field. Field dates derived from the minimum starttime and maximum endtime in the released microdata. The 2017 dataset ships no guide with published marginals.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
CCES variable CC17_341F - Trump executive order banning transgender people from military service
Presidents Trump has issued many orders over the first year of his presidency. For each of the following tell us whether you support or oppose the order in principle.
Ban Transgender People Serving in Military
Wording notes: item text is a bare policy label with no explanatory sentence, unlike the other rows in the grid which carry two- or three-sentence descriptions | no middle or don't-know option | asked as one row in a battery of Trump executive orders, so responses are partly a referendum on Trump
neutral — the label states the policy plainly; the main comparability concern is that it is far shorter than the neighbouring rows and is embedded in a Trump-approval battery
Subgroup figures (6)
CES demographic variable measuring transgender status of the respondent
Have you ever undergone any part of a process (including any thought or action) to change your gender / perceived gender from the one you were assigned at birth? This may include steps such as changing the type of clothes you wear, name you are known by or undergoing surgery.
No
95.7%
Yes
2.6%
Prefer not to say
1.7%
Wording notes: extremely broad wording ('any thought or action')
unclear — The pre-2021 CCES wording asks whether the respondent has 'ever undergone any part of a process (including any thought or action)' to change their gender, which is far broader than transgender self-identification and produces prevalence estimates of 2-4%, several times higher than every other national survey. It should not be read as a transgender population estimate.