probability ABS mail

NORC (AmeriSpeak)

General Social Survey 2021 Cross-section · Dec 2020 – May 3, 2021 · US national

Methodology

Pollster: NORC (AmeriSpeak) academic
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Fielded: Dec 2020 – May 3, 2021
Population: adults
Sample size: 4,032
Sample frame: probability ABS mail
Mode: web self-administered questionnaire supplemented by telephone, push-to-web from a mailed invitation
Margin of error: not disclosed
Weighting: WTSSPS / WTSSNRPS post-stratification weights
Geography: US national

Sources

Verification note. Wording, response options and frequencies read directly from the 2021 GSS Codebook (Release 4, produced 25 November 2024), which is explicitly titled 'Codebook and Unweighted Frequencies'. Percentages are therefore UNWEIGHTED. Field dates read from the codebook narrative ('The 2021 GSS Cross-section was conducted from December 1, 2020, to May 3, 2021'). Response rate line in the codebook was not machine-readable in this session.

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

Questions asked (1)

Contact & populationotherin a trend series

GSS variable SEXNOW1 - self-described current sex/gender; transgender self-identification prevalence

Do you describe yourself as male, female, or transgender?

Female

55.4%

Male

43.9%

Transgender

0.3%

None of these

0.4%

Wording notes: 'transgender' offered as a mutually exclusive alternative to male/female | asked of all respondents beginning with the 2020 GSS

unclear — the single-item mutually exclusive format is known to undercount trans respondents who identify as simply male or female

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