mixed-mode probability
Rasmussen Reports
Rasmussen Reports national survey, February 2017 · Feb 22–23, 2017 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Rasmussen Reports commercial
- Sponsor
- Rasmussen Reports
- Fielded
- Feb 22–23, 2017
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- mixed-mode probability
- Mode
- national telephone and online survey; field work by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC
- Margin of error
- +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Wording read verbatim from Rasmussen's questions page; percentages and party splits from the public release. Fielded on the two days immediately following the February 22, 2017 withdrawal of the federal Title IX guidance on transgender students, which makes this the fastest national read on the rescission located for this project.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
transgender students' bathroom access after the rescission of the federal guidance
The federal government last year ordered all public schools in America to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of the gender they identify with.
The federal government last year 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: the preamble uses the respondent-neutral phrase 'the gender they identify with' but the question itself switches to 'the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex' | 'ordered' characterizes the 2016 Dear Colleague letter as a command
tilts_restrictive — the stem and the ask describe the same policy in two different vocabularies, and the one carried into the actual question - 'the bathrooms of the opposite biological sex' - is the opponents' formulation; a respondent who accepted the preamble's framing is asked to endorse something that sounds materially different
Subgroup figures (4)
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
36%
State government
28%
The federal government
28%
Wording notes: recasts the dispute as a federalism question with transgender students unmentioned
neutral — three levels of government offered without characterization; the framing choice matters more than the wording, since detaching the question from transgender students changes what is being measured