probability RDD
Gallup
Gallup Values and Beliefs Poll · May 3–7, 2017 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- May 3–7, 2017
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,011
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - dual-frame RDD, live interviewer; minimum quota 70% cellphone / 30% landline, with minimum quotas by time zone within region
- Margin of error
- ±4 percentage points
- Weighting
- Gallup standard demographic weighting; reported MOE includes computed design effects for weighting
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Verbatim wording, subgroup tables and Survey Methods paragraph read directly from the Gallup release. || Wording, toplines, trend row and methodology read from the Gallup release. Party crosstabs were not printed in the release text retrieved. || Wording, toplines and party breaks read from the Gallup release. Fielded roughly two months after the Trump administration's February 22, 2017 rescission of the 2016 Title IX guidance and five weeks after North Carolina's partial HB2 repeal.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
public restroom policy - birth gender vs gender identity
In terms of policies governing public restrooms, do you think these policies should -- [ROTATED: require transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with their birth gender (or should these policies) allow transgender individuals to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity]?
Require use of restroom corresponding with birth gender
48%
Allow use of restroom corresponding with gender identity
45%
No opinion
7%
Wording notes: uses 'birth gender' | response order rotated | no middle option offered
neutral — both alternatives stated in full and rotated
Subgroup figures (14)
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?
Yes, new laws needed
51%
No, not needed
46%
No opinion
3%
Wording notes: names transgender people explicitly but inside a combined LGBT item | 'new' laws framing can depress support by implying existing protections already exist
neutral — balanced 'or not' construction; the combined LGBT wording means trans-specific opinion cannot be isolated
Subgroup figures (8)