Methodology
- Pollster
- Elon University Poll academic
- Sponsor
- Elon University
- Fielded
- Apr 10–15, 2016
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 621
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - live caller, dual frame (landline and cell)
- Margin of error
- ±3.93 percentage points
- Geography
- US: North Carolina
- Base notes
- 621 registered voters out of 692 total respondents
Sources
Verification note. Question wording and topline percentages read directly from the 'Q:' block in the Elon University Poll news release of 2016-04-19. This is the first Elon reading taken after HB2 was signed (2016-03-23). No topline/crosstab PDF is linked from the release page, so no party breakdown was available for this wave. || Wording and toplines read from the Elon Poll archive page. Party breaks not published for this item; religion, gender and education breaks were. || Question wording and toplines read from the Elon University Poll release page for the April 2016 poll. Party crosstab not published for this item; religion and gender breaks reported approximately in the release text and are recorded only where exact. || Question wording and toplines read from the Elon University Poll release page for the April 2016 poll. Party crosstab not published for this item; religion and gender breaks reported in the release text.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
state preemption of local ordinances allowing transgender people to use facilities matching gender identity (HB2)
Recently the city of Charlotte passed an ordinance allowing transgender individuals to use public facilities, such as bathrooms, that best match their gender identity. The state then passed a law prohibiting such local ordinances. In terms of governmental authority, should cities be allowed to adopt such policies or should the state government ban such ordinances?
State should prohibit cities from passing such ordinances
49%
Cities should be allowed to pass such policies
39%
Don't know
11%
Wording notes: framed as a question of governmental authority (state vs. city) rather than of transgender access itself | supplies factual preamble naming Charlotte and the state law
neutral — both alternatives are stated explicitly and symmetrically and the preamble is descriptive rather than evaluative; recasting the issue as state-vs-local authority is itself a framing choice that may move respondents away from the underlying transgender-access question
Subgroup figures (5)
