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CECooperative Election Study (CES)
CCES 2018 Common Content · Sep 27, 2018 – Dec 3, 2018 · 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
- Sep 27, 2018 – Dec 3, 2018
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 60,000
- 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
- Pre-election wave 27 Sep - 5 Nov 2018; post-election wave 7 Nov - 3 Dec 2018. CC18_417_d was on the post-election wave.
Sources
Verification note. Wording, preamble and counts read from 'CCES Guide 2018.pdf' (variable CC18_417_d). The guide's counts are UNWEIGHTED raw counts; the percentages here were computed by this agent from those counts (17,161 support / 34,413 oppose = 51,574 answering). The 2018 microdata were not downloaded, so no weighted estimate or party break is offered for this year.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
CCES variable CC18_417_d - Trump executive order banning transgender people from the military (post-election wave)
President Trump has issued many orders over the first two years of his presidency. For each of the following tell us whether you support or oppose the order in principle.
Ban Transgender People in the Military
Wording notes: bare policy label with no explanatory sentence | no middle or don't-know option | embedded in a Trump executive-order battery
neutral — plain policy label; comparability concern is the Trump-approval framing of the battery