probability RDD
PRRI
PRRI August 2016 Survey (AVA LGBT module) · Aug 2016 – Aug 31, 2016 · US national
Data flag. re-sourced: PRRI's own August 2016 survey topline, fielded Aug 10-16 2016, N=2,014, containing both the bathroom item (15/20/23/30/12) and the nondiscrimination item (38/34/13/10/5) verbatim
Methodology
- Pollster
- PRRI independent
- Sponsor
- PRRI
- Fielded
- Aug 2016 – Aug 31, 2016
- 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
- PRRI publishes no per-wave n or MOE for this fielding in the LGBTQ trend toplines.
Sources
Verification note. Both toplines read from trend tables in the 2025 AVA LGBTQ topline PDF. This is the earliest PRRI reading of the bathroom item (35% favor / 53% oppose net).
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
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.
Favor 34%
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
laws requiring restroom use matching sex assigned at birth ('bathroom bills')
Q12. Do you favor or oppose each of the following?
Laws that require transgender individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex at birth rather than their current gender identity
Favor 20%Favor (net) 35%Oppose (net) 53%
Wording notes: uses 'sex at birth' against 'current gender identity' | policy stated as a restriction the respondent favors or opposes
neutral — both poles of the policy are named; 'current gender identity' can imply impermanence but the alternative is stated symmetrically
Subgroup figures (1)