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SurveyUSA
SurveyUSA News Poll #22858 · Apr 28, 2016 – May 2, 2016 · US: Minnesota
Methodology
- Pollster
- SurveyUSA independent
- Sponsor
- KSTP-TV (Minneapolis)
- Commissioned by
- KSTP-TV (Minneapolis)
- Fielded
- Apr 28, 2016 – May 2, 2016
- Population
- adults
- Sample size
- 500
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- not stated in the released topline; SurveyUSA's Minnesota polling of this period was conducted by telephone and online
- Margin of error
- credibility interval +/-4.5 percentage points
- Weighting
- not stated in the released topline
- Geography
- US: Minnesota
- Base notes
- SurveyUSA's own PDF mislabels the base row for questions 2 and 3 as '500 Current And Former Catholics'; the composition rows for those questions are identical to question 1's '500 Adults' base, so the base is the same 500 Minnesota adults. This is a template artefact in the released document, noted here rather than corrected.
Sources
Verification note. Question wording and every percentage below were read directly out of SurveyUSA's own released crosstab PDF (PollPrint for GUID 08aff59b-f7b0-4526-b94f-a38682b7dafd), extracted with word-level x-coordinates so that the party columns could be aligned reliably. Poll located by sweeping SurveyUSA's PollHistory.aspx month by month from 2014 to 2026 and grepping for transgender / gender identity. SurveyUSA describes its sampling error as a 'credibility interval' and did not state mode or weighting in this document.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
Bathrooms & facilities5-point scale
laws requiring restroom use to match the gender on a person's birth certificate
Some states are considering laws that require individuals to use the restroom that matches the gender listed on their birth certificate and not the gender with which they identify. How do you feel about laws requiring people to follow their birth certificate in using a restroom? Do you strongly agree? Somewhat agree? Neither agree or disagree? Somewhat disagree? or strongly disagree?
Wording notes: offers an explicit middle 'neither' option | asks about agreement with the restrictive law rather than about transgender people directly
neutral — The stem describes the policy in the states' own terms and names both 'the gender listed on their birth certificate' and 'the gender with which they identify'; a symmetric five-point agree/disagree scale with an explicit midpoint is offered.
Subgroup figures (24)
Sportsforced choice
transgender high school athletes required to play on birth-certificate teams
Should transgender student athletes participating in high school sports be required to play on teams following the gender listed on their birth certificate?
Wording notes: yes/no with no stated alternative policy | unusually large 'not sure' share (27%)
neutral — Single-clause yes/no; the restrictive policy is the thing being asked about, so a 'yes' is restrictive and a 'no' is affirming, but no argument is supplied on either side.
Subgroup figures (19)