News 88.7/KHOU 11 News Runoff Election Poll, December 2015 · Dec 2015 · Houston, Texas
Methodology
- Pollster
- KHOU 11 News / News 88.7 media
- Sponsor
- KHOU 11 News and News 88.7 (Houston Public Media)
- Fielded
- Dec 2015
- Population
- likely voters in the December 12, 2015 Houston runoff
- Sample size
- 469
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- not disclosed
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Geography
- Houston, Texas
Sources
Verification note. Percentages and sample size read from the Houston Public Media write-up. The question is described by the pollster himself (Robert Stein) in a quoted paraphrase rather than printed as administered, so it is flagged non-verbatim. No topline, field dates or margin of error were published. This is a rare and valuable item: it isolates whether gender-identity protections were what sank HERO, and finds they were not.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
support for a Houston nondiscrimination ordinance with gender identity removed
[Paraphrase - as described by the pollster: whether the respondent would still support or oppose the ordinance if they knew that sexual identity, as opposed to sexual orientation, would no longer be a protected right]
Wording reconstructed from: Houston Public Media, December 10, 2015, quoting Robert Stein: "We specifically took that off the table and said, 'Would you still support or oppose if you knew that sexual identity, as opposed to sexual orientation, would no longer be a protected right'". This is the pollster's spoken description of the item, not the administered text.
Wording notes: uses 'sexual identity' rather than 'gender identity' | hypothetical-revision design: asks about a version of the ordinance that did not exist
unclear — the administered wording was never published and the pollster's own paraphrase uses the non-standard term 'sexual identity', so the stimulus respondents actually heard cannot be reconstructed