Gallup Poll Social Series: Mood of the Nation (January 2024) -- satisfaction with the acceptance of transgender people · Jan 2–22, 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Gallup independent
- Sponsor
- Gallup
- Fielded
- Jan 2–22, 2024
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,011
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone -- live interviewer, dual-frame landline and cellphone RDD (minimum quotas of 80% cellphone and 20% landline), conducted for Gallup by ReconMR
- Margin of error
- +/- 4 percentage points for the full sample of 1,011; the transgender item rests on the Form B half sample of 506, for which Gallup publishes no separate margin of error
- Weighting
- weighted to U.S. Census targets; all reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- The item was asked of Form B only. Gallup's January 2024 final topline gives the base as 'BASED ON ~506~ NATIONAL ADULTS IN FORM B' (unweighted n=506, weighted n=494) out of a full sample of 1,011. Gallup publishes no separate half-sample margin of error.
Sources
Verification note. Five-category distribution taken from Gallup's own trend table (Datawrapper chart apodF), dataset.csv downloaded this session: 2024 Jan 2-22 = 8 very satisfied / 28 somewhat satisfied / 21 somewhat dissatisfied / 27 very dissatisfied / 16 no opinion. The 36% combined-satisfied figure is independently stated in the Gallup release of Feb. 5, 2024, which notes this was one of 'two items not previously asked -- the effect technology is having on society (44%) and the acceptance of transgender people (36%)' and that there was no partisan difference on it. Field dates and n are from that release's Survey Methods statement. Gallup publishes no party crosstab for the item. || Wording, base and the full demographic crosstab were read this session from Gallup's own January 2024 satisfaction topline and tabs PDF (news.gallup.com/file/poll/610982/20240222_IssueSatisfactions.pdf), item X, 'The acceptance of transgender people in the nation', 'BASED ON ~506~ NATIONAL ADULTS IN FORM B', 2024 Jan 2-22 = 8 very satisfied / 28 somewhat satisfied / 21 somewhat dissatisfied / 27 very dissatisfied, total satisfied 36 / total dissatisfied 48. Crosstab table Q16X was re-extracted with fixed-pitch layout so the columns resolve cleanly, and every column was checked by summing its six response categories to 99-102 before recording. The numbers agree with Gallup's Datawrapper trend table apodF, which collapses Don't know and Refused into a single 16% 'no opinion'. The partisan pattern is the analytically important part and confirms the release's claim of 'no partisan difference': total satisfied is 32% among Republicans, 37% among independents and 38% among Democrats -- three groups that plainly do not mean the same thing by it.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
satisfaction with the acceptance of transgender people in the nation (Mood of the Nation state-of-the-nation battery, asked of a random half sample)
Next, we'd like to know how you feel about the state of the nation in each of the following areas. For each one, please say whether you are -- very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't have enough information about a particular subject to rate it, just say so.
Next, we'd like to know how you feel about the state of the nation in each of the following areas. For each one, please say whether you are -- very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied or very dissatisfied. If you don't have enough information about a particular subject to rate it, just say so. How about -- the acceptance of transgender people in the nation?
Somewhat satisfied
28%
Somewhat satisfied
28%
Very dissatisfied
27%
Very dissatisfied
27%
Somewhat dissatisfied
21%
Somewhat dissatisfied
21%
Very satisfied
8%
Very satisfied
8%
No opinion
16%
Don't know
12%
Refused
4%
Wording notes: asked of a random half sample of the January Mood of the Nation sample | satisfaction framing collapses two opposite reasons for dissatisfaction (wanting more acceptance and wanting less) into a single 'dissatisfied' response, which Gallup itself disentangles only with the 2026 follow-up | explicit don't-know escape offered in the stem
unclear — The stem is neutral, but the response scale is directionally ambiguous for this subject: a respondent who wants far less acceptance of transgender people and a respondent who wants far more both record as 'dissatisfied.' Gallup's own 2026 follow-up exists precisely because the headline number cannot be read as support or opposition.
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