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Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin)

University of Texas / Texas Politics Project Poll - Texas Statewide Survey, April 2022 · Apr 14–22, 2022 · US: Texas

Methodology

Pollster: Texas Politics Project (UT-Austin) academic
Sponsor: Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin
Fielded: Apr 14–22, 2022
Population: registered voters
Sample size: 1,200
Sample frame: online opt-in
Panel: YouGov panel
Mode: online - YouGov opt-in web panel; respondents interviewed then matched down to the final sample on gender, age, race and education, then weighted
Margin of error: +/- 2.83% for registered voter sample
Weighting: YouGov matched-sample design; matched on gender, age, race and education, then weighted to known characteristics of Texas registered voters
Geography: US: Texas
Base notes: YouGov interviewed 1,355 Texas registered voters and matched them down to a final sample of 1,200

Sources

Verification note. Question wording and toplines read directly from the April 2022 UT/Texas Politics Project topline PDF (pp. 26-27). Party crosstabs not retrieved: the matching crosstabs PDF 404s under the file-naming pattern that works for later years.

Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.

Questions asked (3)

General acceptance4-point scalein a trend series

perceived amount of discrimination against transgender people in the U.S.

Policy Questions

In your opinion, in the United States today, how much discrimination is there against...

A lot of discrimination

37%

Some

26%

Not very much

18%

None at all

12%

Don't know/no opinion

Wording notes: battery item - 'Transgender people' is one of ten groups rated

neutral — Symmetric scale applied identically to ten groups; no valenced language.

General acceptanceforced choicein a trend series

which group faces the most discrimination - transgender people

In your opinion, which of the following groups faces the MOST discrimination in the United States today? [RANDOMIZE 1-10]

African Americans

26%

Transgender people

20%

Whites

14%

Christians

12%

Gays and Lesbians

Muslims

Men

Asians

Hispanics

Women

Wording notes: single-choice forced ranking across ten groups

neutral — Neutral single-choice comparison item; forcing one group compresses totals but does so symmetrically.

Identity beliefsforced choicein a trend series

whether birth-certificate sex is the only way to define gender

Do you think that the sex listed on a person's original birth certificate should be the only way to define a person's gender?

Yes

63%

26%

Unsure

11%

Wording notes: binary yes/no on a contested definitional claim | no middle option offered

neutral — Plainly stated proposition with an explicit 'Unsure'; restrictive in substance but the wording does not argue for either answer.

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