probability RDD
QUQuinnipiac University
Quinnipiac University National Poll · Jul 27, 2017 – Aug 2017 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Quinnipiac University academic
- Sponsor
- Quinnipiac University
- Fielded
- Jul 27, 2017 – Aug 2017
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,125
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - random digit dialing, live interviewers calling landlines and cell phones
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.4 percentage points, including the design effect
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- Military-household break reported for Q52 only
Sources
Verification note. Wording, N, MoE and party crosstab transcribed from the archived PollingReport LGBT page. Fielded immediately after President Trump's 26 July 2017 announcement of a transgender military ban. || toplines and military-household / Republican breaks retrieved from news write-ups of the Quinnipiac release; the poll.qu.edu topline PDF was not retrieved, so question wording is a paraphrase || Toplines, wording, trend blocks and party crosstabs read from the Quinnipiac topline PDF (pp.12-13). Fielded within a week of Trump's July 26, 2017 announcement of a transgender military ban.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (4)
whether transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military
Do you think transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military or not?
Should be allowed 68%27% Should not be allowed
Wording notes: short, unqualified wording with no cost, readiness or medical-care predicate - contrasts with restrictive-framed versions asked by other pollsters the same month
neutral — minimal, neutral wording; no argument supplied on either side
Subgroup figures (20)
whether transgender people should be allowed to serve, after Trump's July 2017 ban announcement
Do you think that transgender people should be allowed to serve in the armed forces, or not?
Wording reconstructed from: paraphrase reconstructed from The Hill / VOA coverage of the Quinnipiac August 2, 2017 release; Quinnipiac topline PDF not retrieved
Should be allowed 68%27% Should not be allowed
unclear — wording not verified against the pollster's topline
Subgroup figures (4)
how accepting the U.S. is of transgender people
How accepting do you think the U.S. is of transgender people today; very accepting, somewhat accepting, not so accepting, or not accepting at all?
Somewhat accepting
51%
Not so accepting
27%
Not accepting at all
10%
Very accepting
9%
DK/NA
4%
neutral — descriptive perception item with a balanced scale
Subgroup figures (9)
would more acceptance be good or bad for the country
Do you think more acceptance of transgender people would be a good thing for the country, a bad thing for the country, or do you think that it would not make much difference either way?
Good thing
46%
Not much difference
39%
Bad thing
14%
DK/NA
2%
neutral — symmetric good/bad alternatives with an explicit neutral option
Subgroup figures (15)