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PRRI
PRRI 2018 Survey (transgender high-school athletics items) · Jan 2018 – Dec 31, 2018 · US national
Data flag. re-sourced: PRRI's own January 2018 survey topline, fielded Jan 17-21 2018, N=1,010, containing the transgender-athletics items (Q11/Q12) that match this record
Methodology
- Pollster
- PRRI independent
- Sponsor
- PRRI
- Fielded
- Jan 2018 – Dec 31, 2018
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- not disclosed in the retrieved source
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- raking to U.S. Census benchmarks
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Split-sample: each form was asked of roughly half the sample.
Sources
Verification note. topline (69% favor) and party breaks (D 79 / I 70 / R 56) retrieved from PRRI's own spotlight page citing its 2018 survey; exact field dates, sample size and margin of error were not retrieved, so dates are recorded at year precision || Percentages are verified from the 2021 topline's trend footnotes, but PRRI does not name the specific 2018 fielding, its dates, mode, n or MOE there. Field dates recorded to year precision only. || Only the net favor figure (69%) was retrievable in this session; the underlying 'Fifty Years After Stonewall' report PDF was not fetched, so the pooled four-point distribution, n and MOE are missing. || WORDING RECOVERY SWEEP. Item text verbatim from PRRI's own trend tables. PRRI's published trend contains two 2018 fieldings (Mar. 2018 and July 2018) and no January 2018 fielding; both are recorded below as labelled rows rather than assigning either to this record's nominal date.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (4)
employment, housing and public accommodation nondiscrimination laws
Do you favor or oppose laws that would protect LGBT people from discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing?
Wording reconstructed from: PRRI spotlight quotes the item stem as 'laws that would protect [LGBT people] from discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing'; the favor/oppose stem is reconstructed
Wording notes: 2018 wave used the acronym 'LGBT' rather than naming transgender people explicitly
neutral — symmetric favor/oppose stem
Subgroup figures (3)
transgender boy (assigned female at birth) competing with other male students in high school
Allowing a transgender student who was listed as female on their birth certificate, but now identifies as male, to participate in high school athletic events with other male students
Wording reconstructed from: PRRI August 2021 AVA Wave 3 LGBTQ topline, Q.5b [FORM 1], footnote 1: 'This question was asked in 2018, with yes/no responses. 61% Yes, 32% No, and 7% Don't know/Refused'. The 2018 instrument used a yes/no answer set; the stem printed here is the 2021 wording.
Yes
61%
No
32%
Don't know/Refused
7%
Wording notes: identifies the student by birth-certificate sex marker rather than by gender | yes/no answer set in 2018, converted to a four-point favor/oppose scale in 2021
neutral — descriptive stem naming both the birth-certificate designation and the current identity; no evaluative language
transgender girl (assigned male at birth) competing with other female students in high school
Allowing a transgender student who was listed as male on their birth certificate, but now identifies as female, to participate in high school athletic events with other female students
Wording reconstructed from: PRRI August 2021 AVA Wave 3 LGBTQ topline, Q.5b [FORM 2], footnote 2: 'This question was asked in 2018, with yes/no responses. 50% Yes, 43% No, and 7% Don't know/Refused'. The stem printed here is the 2021 wording.
Yes
50%
No
43%
Don't know/Refused
7%
Wording notes: identifies the student by birth-certificate sex marker rather than by gender | yes/no answer set in 2018, converted to a four-point favor/oppose scale in 2021
neutral — descriptive stem naming both the birth-certificate designation and the current identity; no evaluative language
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.
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
Subgroup figures (10)