Methodology
- Pollster
- Harris Poll commercial
- Sponsor
- GLAAD
- Commissioned by
- GLAAD
- Fielded
- Oct 5–7, 2015
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 2,032
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- Harris Poll Online panel
- Mode
- online survey conducted within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of GLAAD
- Margin of error
- not applicable - GLAAD states the survey is not based on a probability sample and no theoretical sampling error can be calculated
- Weighting
- not disclosed in the report; GLAAD refers requests for weighting variables to press contact
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,781 of the 2,032 adults were classified as non-LGBT; the published toplines below are the non-LGBT subsample
Sources
Verification note. Field dates, sample sizes and the seriousness percentages read directly from the Accelerating Acceptance 2016 PDF. The percentages were recovered by re-extracting page 5 with word coordinates, because the plain text extraction interleaves two side-by-side charts and scrambles the row labels; the coordinate pass fixes each figure to its own label. The report gives no question wording for the seriousness battery beyond the chart caption reproduced below. Item selected because it is one of the very few 2015 national readings that asks about transgender people specifically rather than about 'LGBT people' as a bloc. || Percentages read directly off the Accelerating Acceptance 2016 report PDF (page 5 grid), with column/row assignment confirmed by extracting text with x/y coordinates. Only the seriousness battery contains an explicitly transgender item; the seven comfort scenarios in this wave are 'LGBT'-generic and are therefore out of scope for this database.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
whether acts of violence against transgender people are a serious problem
[Chart caption, wording as published: 'Perception of LGBT problems by non-LGBT Americans (total % of non-LGBT respondents who stated that the following problems were not serious; strongest responses of disbelief highlighted)' - item: 'Acts of violence against transgender people']
Wording reconstructed from: Accelerating Acceptance 2016 PDF, page 5. GLAAD/Harris publish the chart caption and item label but not the administered question stem or its response scale.
Wording notes: only the 'not serious' side of the scale is published, so the full distribution cannot be reconstructed | reported for the non-LGBT subsample only
unclear — the administered stem and scale are not published and the report shows only one tail of the distribution, so the item cannot be evaluated as written; the paired gay/lesbian item makes the trans-versus-LGB comparison the usable part of the result
Subgroup figures (11)
whether anti-transgender violence is a serious problem
Perception of LGBT problems by non-LGBT Americans
Acts of violence against transgender people
Not serious (net) 27%
Wording notes: only the 'not serious' side of the scale was published; the 'serious' percentages were not released | battery stem not printed
neutral — Item is a bare problem label with no evaluative adjectives; the reporting is one-sided but the item itself is not.
Subgroup figures (6)