probability RDD

PRRI

PRRI American Values Atlas 2015-05 wave (LGBT module) · May 2015 – May 31, 2015 · US national

Data flag. re-sourced: PRRI's own 2015 full topline trends document: 'PRRI Surveys, April 29 2015 - January 7 2016, N=42,586', with the May 2015 weekly rows for the cited nondiscrimination item

Methodology

Pollster
PRRI independent
Sponsor
PRRI
Fielded
May 2015 – May 31, 2015
Population
adults
Sample size
—
Sample frame
probability RDD
Mode
telephone - bilingual (English and Spanish) RDD landline and cell-phone interviews, live interviewer, fielded by SSRS
Margin of error
not disclosed
Geography
US national
Base notes
Monthly AVA wave. PRRI publishes only the pooled annual AVA sample size and margin of error; per-wave n and MOE are not disclosed in the topline.

Sources

Verification note. Topline percentages read directly from the trend table in the 2025 AVA LGBTQ topline PDF. Mode is PRRI's pre-2021 AVA design (bilingual RDD telephone); PRRI moved the AVA to a probability online panel in 2021.

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

Questions asked (1)

Nondiscriminationfavor/opposein a trend series
LGBT nondiscrimination protections in jobs, public accommodations and housing (item explicitly names transgender people)

Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?

Laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing.

Strongly favor
35%
Strongly oppose
9%
Skipped/Refused
5%
Favor 36%Oppose 15%

Wording notes: bundles transgender people with gay, lesbian and bisexual people in one item | three policy domains combined in one question (jobs, public accommodations, housing)

neutral — symmetric favor/oppose scale, no loaded terms; the design limitation is that it is double-barreled across three policy domains and four identity groups, so transgender-specific support cannot be isolated

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