mixed-mode probability
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports national survey, May 2016 · May 15–16, 2016 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Rasmussen Reports commercial
- Sponsor
- Rasmussen Reports
- Fielded
- May 15–16, 2016
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- national telephone survey
- Margin of error
- +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- results also reported for adults with elementary and secondary school age children
Sources
Verification note. Wording read verbatim from Rasmussen's questions page; toplines, party splits and the parent subgroup from the public release. Fielded two days after the May 13, 2016 federal Dear Colleague letter on transgender students, and asked again word-for-word after the guidance was rescinded (February 22-23, 2017), giving a clean two-point before/after pair on identical wording: 33% favor in May 2016, 38% in February 2017.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
transgender students' bathroom access under the federal guidance
The federal government has ordered all public schools in America to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify with.
The federal government has ordered all public schools in America to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify with. Do you favor or oppose allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex?
Wording notes: preamble says 'the gender they identify with' while the question switches to 'the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex' | 'ordered' characterizes the guidance as a command
tilts_restrictive — the same two-vocabulary construction Rasmussen reused in February 2017: the respondent is briefed in identity language and then asked to endorse 'the opposite biological sex', which is the opponents' description of the same policy
Subgroup figures (8)
which level of government should set school bathroom policy
Who should be responsible for setting bathroom policies in elementary and secondary schools - local government, state government or the federal government?
Local government
41%
State government
25%
The federal government
24%
Wording notes: recasts the dispute as a federalism question with transgender students unmentioned
neutral — three levels of government offered without characterization; identical wording to the February 2017 wave, so the two are directly comparable