Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- May 3–7, 2017
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - live interviewer
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted to national demographic targets
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. the 51% figure and the item stem were retrieved from Frank Newport's Gallup Polling Matters column 'American Public Opinion and the Equality Act', which cites a 2017 Gallup asking; exact field dates, sample size and margin of error were not given in the column, so dates are recorded at year precision. Newport's point in citing it is that abstract 'new civil rights laws' framing produces far lower support (51%) than concrete jobs/housing/public-accommodations framing (PRRI's 70s, Pew's 60s) for what is substantively the same policy.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
whether new civil rights laws are needed for LGBT people
Do you think new civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people, or not?
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed around the stem Gallup quotes in the Polling Matters column ('new civil rights laws to reduce discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people'); the full Gallup topline was not retrieved
Yes, new civil rights laws are needed
51%
Wording notes: abstract 'new civil rights laws' framing rather than naming concrete protected domains | names transgender people only as the T in an LGBT list
neutral — not slanted, but the abstraction of 'new civil rights laws' asks respondents to judge a legislative category rather than a policy, and reliably yields lower support than the concrete jobs/housing/public-accommodations construction
