probability ABS mail
NORC (AmeriSpeak)
General Social Survey 2018 Cross-section (Ballot 2 self-administered questionnaire) · — · US national
Data flag. FIELD DATES NOT PUBLISHED. GSS Methodological Report No. 129 documents the transgender-measurement items added to the 2018 GSS but states no field dates; the NORC release, ARDA, Roper and Berkeley SDA catalogue pages do not either.
Methodology
- Pollster
- NORC (AmeriSpeak) academic
- Sponsor
- National Science Foundation
- Fielded
- —
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,409
- Sample frame
- probability ABS mail
- Mode
- in-person interview with a computer-assisted self-administered questionnaire (SAQ) module completed by the respondent on a laptop
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- weighted for sample design effects (the 0.49% estimate is design-weighted)
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- 1,409 respondents completed the self-administered questionnaire (SAQ) in which the two new gender-identity items were placed; the full 2018 GSS cross-section was larger
Sources
Verification note. Question wording, variable names, SAQ base (n=1,409), case counts and the weighted 0.49% figure all read directly from GSS Methodology Report No. 129 (Tom W. Smith and Jaesok Son, July 2019). Field dates for the 2018 GSS cross-section were NOT retrievable in this session and are left null. Note the report's own caution that most of the nine transgender/alternative-gender cases could be data-entry error.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
GSS variable SEXNOW - current gender (second half of the two-step measure); 2018 prevalence of transgender/alternative gender identification
What is your current gender?
Transgender or alternative gender (weighted for sample design effects)
0.5%
Wording notes: 'Transgender' offered as an alternative to 'Woman'/'Man' rather than as a cross-cutting status
unclear — treating 'Transgender' as a mutually exclusive option alongside 'Woman' and 'Man' forces trans respondents who identify simply as women or men to choose, which is a known limitation of this version of the measure