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Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin)
October 2016 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll · Oct 14–23, 2016 · US: Texas
Methodology
- Pollster
- Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin) academic
- Sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin and The Texas Tribune
- Fielded
- Oct 14–23, 2016
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,200
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov
- Mode
- online - YouGov opt-in panel, matched to a target sample drawn from the 2016 Current Population Survey and weighted to known characteristics of Texas registered voters
- Margin of error
- +/- 2.83%
- Weighting
- respondents matched on gender, age, race, education, party identification, ideology and political interest; matched set weighted to Texas registered-voter characteristics from the 2016 Current Population Survey and the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey
- Geography
- US: Texas
- Base notes
- 1,377 respondents interviewed, matched down to a final sample of 1,200
Sources
Verification note. Question wording taken from the chart footnote and all percentages from the chart data embedded in the Texas Politics Project question-set page; field dates, sample size and matching/weighting from that project's Data Archive methodology statement for the October 2016 wave.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (1)
whether transgender people should have restroom access by birth gender or gender identity
Which of the following comes closer to your opinion? Transgender people should have access to public restrooms based on...
Their birth gender
51%
Their gender identity
31%
Don't know/No opinion
18%
Wording notes: very short options with no elaboration on either side | explicit don't-know option offered
neutral — Two bare parallel options, 'birth gender' against 'gender identity', with no argument attached to either.
Subgroup figures (18)