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PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Education · Mar 27, 2025 – Apr 4, 2025 · US: California

Methodology

Pollster
Ipsos independent
Sponsor
Public Policy Institute of California
Fielded
Mar 27, 2025 – Apr 4, 2025
Population
adults
Sample size
1,591
Sample frame
probability panel
Panel
Ipsos KnowledgePanel
Mode
online - Ipsos KnowledgePanel, English and Spanish according to respondent preference; ABS-recruited with RDD supplement for Latino respondents; median completion 19 minutes
Margin of error
±3.1 percent, taking design effects from weighting into consideration
Weighting
base weight for selection probability, then iterative proportional fitting (raking) to 2019-2023 ACS population benchmarks and California Secretary of State party registration benchmarks
Geography
US: California
Base notes
1,356 registered voters (±3.3), 1,094 likely voters (±3.6), 355 parents of children under 18 (±6.0), 298 parents of school-aged children (±6.5), 279 public school parents (±6.8)

Sources

Verification note. Question wording read verbatim from the PPIC all-adults crosstab PDF (Q68); total four-point distribution and the Democrat/Republican/independent and public-school-parent NET support figures confirmed against the PPIC key findings text. Release date approximate (April 2025).

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

Questions asked (1)

Sports4-point scalein a trend series
requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching sex assigned at birth

To what extent do you support or oppose the following policies? Requiring that transgender athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with

Support 65%33% Oppose

Wording notes: asked as one of a set of Trump administration policies (the preceding item Q67 was closing the US Department of Education) | support is the restrictive direction

neutral — policy stated in the administration's own terms but with a balanced support/oppose scale and no argument attached

Subgroup figures (4)

party

GroupNET support
Democrat49%
Republican91%
Independent71%

parent_status

GroupNET support
Public school parents71%

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