probability RDD
QUQuinnipiac University
Quinnipiac University National Poll · Jan 25–28, 2019 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Quinnipiac University academic
- Sponsor
- Quinnipiac University
- Fielded
- Jan 25–28, 2019
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,004
- Sample frame
- probability RDD
- Mode
- telephone - random digit dialing, live interviewers calling landlines and cell phones
- Margin of error
- +/- 3.7 percentage points, including the design effect
- Weighting
- not disclosed
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. topline, party and race breaks retrieved from Washington Blade coverage of the Quinnipiac release; the poll.qu.edu topline PDF was not retrieved, so question wording is a paraphrase and the margin of error is missing. Fielded days after the Supreme Court allowed the 2019 ban policy to take effect while litigation continued. || Toplines, wording, trend blocks and party crosstabs read from the Quinnipiac topline PDF (pp.12-13). Fielded a week after the Supreme Court allowed the transgender military ban to take effect on January 22, 2019.
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, after the Supreme Court's January 2019 stay ruling
Do you think that transgender people should be allowed to serve in the armed forces, or not?
Wording reconstructed from: paraphrase reconstructed from Washington Blade coverage; Quinnipiac topline PDF not retrieved
unclear — wording not verified against the pollster's topline
Subgroup figures (12)
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
56%
Not so accepting
23%
Very accepting
9%
Not accepting at all
8%
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
42%
Not much difference
42%
Bad thing
12%
DK/NA
4%
neutral — symmetric good/bad alternatives with an explicit neutral option
Subgroup figures (15)
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?
Yes/Allowed
70%
No
22%
DK/NA
8%
Wording notes: short, unqualified wording with no cost, readiness or medical-care predicate
neutral — minimal, neutral wording; no argument supplied on either side
Subgroup figures (15)