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Harvard CAPS/Harris
Monthly Harvard-Harris Poll: October 2018 · Oct 26–28, 2018 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
- Sponsor
- Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
- Fielded
- Oct 26–28, 2018
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,835
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- The Harris Poll online panel
- Mode
- online survey, Harris Poll online panel
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, marital status, household size, income, employment, political party, political ideology, and education
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Unweighted base 1,835 registered voters per the topline header; the base shown for this item is 1,821.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard-Harris October 2018 registered-voter topline PDF, Table 106.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
trans military service approval
Do you approve or disapprove of the following? Allowing transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military.
Approve 47%26% Disapprove
Wording notes: offers an explicit middle 'neither' category, unlike most HHP trans items | no 'not sure' option beyond 'neither'
neutral — descriptive wording with a symmetric five-point scale and a genuine midpoint; among the most neutral trans items in the HHP series. The 27% 'neither' share is unusually large and shows how much the forced-choice format used in HHP's other trans items suppresses non-attitudes