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Harvard CAPS/Harris

Monthly Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: January 2025 · Jan 15–16, 2025 · US national

Methodology

Pollster
Harvard CAPS/Harris commercial
Sponsor
Harvard University Center for American Political Studies (Harvard CAPS) and The Harris Poll
Fielded
Jan 15–16, 2025
Population
registered voters
Sample size
2,650
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 and weighted base 2,650.

Sources

Verification note. Wording and percentages read directly from the Harvard CAPS-Harris January 2025 topline PDF, Table 111. Cell counts verified to sum to the 2,650 base.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (1)

Adult medical care4-point scalein a trend series
ending public funding of gender surgery for prisoners and detainees

Do you support or oppose each of the following polices? Ending government payments for sex change operations for prisoners and those in immigration detention

Support 64%20% Oppose

Wording notes: 'sex change operations' is not a clinical term | bundles prisoners and immigration detainees | typo 'polices'

loaded_terms — a within-series natural experiment: replacing 'illegal aliens' with the neutral 'those in immigration detention' moved net support only from 65% to 64%, suggesting the pejorative was doing little work relative to the 'sex change operations for prisoners' component

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