PRRI survey on LGBT nondiscrimination protections · Jan 2019 – Dec 31, 2019 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- PRRI academic
- Sponsor
- PRRI
- Fielded
- Jan 2019 – Dec 31, 2019
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- —
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- raking to U.S. Census benchmarks
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. misperception figures (67% believed federal law already banned LGBT employment discrimination in 2019; 28% correctly said it did not, up from 14% in 2016) retrieved from PRRI's spotlight page. This is the key public-knowledge context for Bostock v. Clayton County, argued October 2019 and decided June 2020. Exact field dates, sample size and margin of error were not retrieved; dates recorded at year precision.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
misperception that federal law already prohibited LGBT employment discrimination (pre-Bostock)
As far as you know, is it currently legal or illegal at the federal level for a business to fire or refuse to hire someone because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?
Wording reconstructed from: reconstructed from PRRI's description of the item; PRRI topline not retrieved
Believed it was already illegal at the federal level
67%
Correctly said no federal employment protections existed
28%
Wording notes: a knowledge item, not an attitude item - the 'correct' answer in 2019 was that no federal protection existed
unclear — wording not verified against a topline
