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Harvard CAPS/Harris
Monthly Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: April 2021 · Apr 27–29, 2021 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
- Sponsor
- Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
- Fielded
- Apr 27–29, 2021
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,872
- 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
- Topline header states 1,872 registered voters; the base for the trans-athlete item (Table 64) is unweighted 1,693 / weighted 1,699, indicating that item was asked of a subset.
Sources
Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard CAPS-Harris April 2021 topline PDF, Table 64.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
trans athletes on girls' teams
Do you want transgender athletes to be able to play on girls teams or not?
Wording notes: asks only about 'girls teams', not boys' teams or sports generally | 'Do you want...' is a preference stem rather than a policy stem | no 'not sure' option
tilts_restrictive — restricting the frame to 'girls teams' removes the reciprocal case and makes the item one-directional; combined with a forced Yes/No and no middle option it produces a far more restrictive result (65% No) than the same firm's symmetric 2019 wording (51% birth sex)