probability panel
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center 2024 Teens Survey (fielded on the Ipsos KnowledgePanel) · Sep 18, 2024 – Oct 10, 2024 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Pew Research Center independent
- Sponsor
- Pew Research Center
- Fielded
- Sep 18, 2024 – Oct 10, 2024
- Population
- teens ages 13-17
- Sample size
- 1,391
- Sample frame
- probability panel
- Panel
- Ipsos KnowledgePanel
- Mode
- self-administered online survey of teens recruited through their parents on a probability-based panel
- Margin of error
- ±3.3 percentage points
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Boys n=698 (±4.6 points); girls n=669 (±4.7 points). TRANSGEND12 asked of the 1,212 who had heard at least a little about nonbinary people.
Sources
Verification note. Percentages read directly from the teen final topline PDF, which publishes boys/girls breaks. Party figures for teens (88% of Republican teens, 50%/49% of Democratic teens on TRANSGEND1) come from the accompanying Pew short read, not from the topline table. || CORRECTION - trend_series reassignment. The 69% is real and correctly attributed to this fielding, but it is a reading of TEENS AGES 13-17, not adults. The DB nonetheless files it under the same trend_series as the adult readings ('pew_transgend1_gender_determined_at_birth'), so that series reads 54 -> 56 -> 60 -> 65 -> 69 -> 67 -> 67 and the 69 presents as the adult peak. Pew's own short read draws the contrast explicitly: 69% of teens vs. 65% of adults. Reassigned here to a teens-only series so the adult trend is not corrupted. The correct adult peak in this window is 65% (Apr 8-14, 2024, n=8,709), already in the DB as pew-research-center_2024-04.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (5)
whether gender is determined by sex assigned at birth (teens)
Which statement comes closer to your views, even if neither is exactly right?
Whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth
69%
Someone can be a man or a woman even if that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth
30%
No answer
2%
Wording notes: response options randomized | identical wording to the adult ATP item, allowing a direct teen/adult comparison
neutral — two symmetric statements, order randomized
Subgroup figures (7)
teens' comfort with someone using they/them pronouns
Thinking about something that happens sometimes in society, are you comfortable or uncomfortable with someone using the pronouns "they/them" instead of "he" or "she" to describe themselves?
Uncomfortable
50%
Comfortable
48%
No answer
1%
Wording notes: teen adaptation of the adult W146 battery item; asked standalone rather than inside a comfort battery | binary with no midpoint
neutral — balanced binary; note the adult comparison (45% comfortable, April 2024) came from a multi-item battery, so context differs
Subgroup figures (4)
teens who know a transgender person
Next, we'd like to ask you about people who are transgender, that is, people whose gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth (such as a person assigned male at birth who identifies as a woman).
Do you personally know anyone who is transgender?
Wording notes: definition of transgender supplied in preamble
neutral — factual contact item
Subgroup figures (2)
teens' awareness of nonbinary/gender-fluid identities
Some people don't identify as a man or a woman. Instead, they may describe themselves as not having a gender or describe their gender using terms such as "nonbinary" or "gender-fluid." How much have you heard about people not identifying as a man or a woman (or as a boy or a girl)?
A little
55%
A lot
32%
Nothing at all
12%
No answer
1%
Wording notes: teen adaptation adds '(or as a boy or a girl)'
neutral — awareness item with descriptive definition
Subgroup figures (2)
teens who know someone who is nonbinary
Do you personally know anyone who does not identify as a man or a woman (or as a boy or a girl)?
Knows someone who is nonbinary
28%
Wording notes: asked only of teens who had heard a lot/a little (n=1,212)
neutral — factual contact item
Subgroup figures (4)