probability RDD
PRRI
PRRI August 2017 Survey (LGBT module) · Aug 2017 – Aug 31, 2017 · US national
Data flag. re-sourced: PRRI's own August 2017 topline, fielded Aug 2-8 2017, N=2,024; Q11c (42/30/13/11) and Q11d (19/19/22/28) both match
Methodology
- Pollster
- PRRI independent
- Sponsor
- PRRI
- Fielded
- Aug 2017 – Aug 31, 2017
- 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
- No per-wave n or MOE published in the LGBTQ trend toplines.
Sources
Verification note. Nondiscrimination and bathroom distributions from the 2025 AVA topline trend tables; the military item and its party breaks from Figure 2 of PRRI's June 2019 transgender-rights report, which cites the PRRI August 2017 Survey.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (3)
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 30%
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 19%
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
allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military
Allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military.
Wording notes: net favor/oppose reported; full scale not published in the 2019 report figure
neutral — plain policy statement with a symmetric favor/oppose scale
Subgroup figures (3)