probability RDD
Monmouth University
Monmouth University Poll - North Carolina, August 2016 · Aug 20–23, 2016 · US: North Carolina
Methodology
- Pollster
- Monmouth University academic
- Sponsor
- Monmouth University
- Fielded
- Aug 20–23, 2016
- Population
- likely voters
- Sample size
- 401
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - live interviewer, landline and cell phone
- Margin of error
- ±4.9 percentage points
- Weighting
- weighted by age, gender, race and partisanship
- Geography
- US: North Carolina
- Base notes
- 401 North Carolina likely voters drawn from registered voters
Sources
Verification note. Q15 and Q16 wording and toplines read directly from the Monmouth report page. Party crosstabs for the HB2 items were not broken out on the retrieved page; a crosstab observation about HB2 approvers/disapprovers and the governor's race was reported and is noted but not recorded as a party break. AAPOR Transparency Initiative membership recorded from Monmouth's standing status, not re-verified on this page.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
Bathrooms & facilitiesapprove/disapprove
approve/disapprove of HB2
Do you approve or disapprove of H.B. 2 - the state law that prohibits local governments from allowing transgendered people to use the public restroom of their choice?
Approve 36%55% Disapprove
Wording notes: uses the dated and generally deprecated adjective 'transgendered' | describes HB2 by its preemption effect rather than its birth-certificate mandate | 'restroom of their choice' rather than 'matching their gender identity'
loaded_terms — 'Transgendered' is a dated construction that reads as clinical/othering, and 'the public restroom of their choice' frames access as unconstrained preference rather than as use of the facility matching one's gender - a formulation that opponents of trans access favor. The approve/disapprove scale itself is symmetric.
Bathrooms & facilitiesforced choice
effect of HB2 on North Carolina's national reputation
Regardless of whether you approve of the law do you think passing H.B. 2 has been good or bad for North Carolina's reputation nationally, or has it had no impact on the state's reputation?
Bad
70%
No impact
14%
Good
9%
Don't know
7%
Wording notes: explicitly decouples reputational judgment from approval of the law
neutral — Three-way symmetric response set with an instruction to set aside one's own view of the law.