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Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin)
University of Texas / Texas Tribune Poll, February 2017 · Feb 3–12, 2017 · US: Texas
Methodology
- Pollster
- Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin) academic
- Sponsor
- The Texas Politics Project at The University of Texas at Austin
- Commissioned by
- The Texas Tribune
- Fielded
- Feb 3–12, 2017
- Population
- registered voters
- Sample size
- 1,200
- Sample frame
- unknown
- Mode
- not disclosed in the retrieved crosstab or graphic pages
- Margin of error
- +/- 2.83 percentage points (3.28 percentage points adjusted for weighting) for the full sample
- Weighting
- weighted (crosstab reports a weighting-adjusted margin of error; weighting variables not stated in retrieved documents)
- Geography
- US: Texas
Sources
Verification note. Weighted topline and party percentages read from the Highcharts data series embedded in the Texas Politics Project's own graphic pages (/set/...); verbatim wording and field dates, N and margin of error confirmed against the project's 740-page February 2017 crosstab PDF (Q35 p.662-665, Q36 p.671-674). texastribune.org itself returns 403 to direct fetching and web.archive.org is blocked to WebFetch, so the pollster's own site was used throughout.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (2)
whether transgender people should use restrooms matching 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
54%
Their gender identity
31%
Don't know/No opinion
15%
Wording notes: uses 'birth gender' | explicit don't-know offered
neutral — two symmetric alternatives are stated and a don't-know is offered; 'birth gender' is a contested term but is paired against 'gender identity' rather than presented alone
Subgroup figures (30)
importance of the Texas Legislature passing a bathroom bill
How important do you think it is that the Texas Legislature pass a law regulating transgender access to public restrooms?
Not at all important
38%
Very important
24%
Somewhat important
15%
Not very important
13%
Don't know/No opinion
11%
Wording notes: measures salience, not direction of opinion
neutral — balanced 4-point importance scale with an explicit don't-know; describes the policy without evaluative language
Subgroup figures (15)