nonprobability quota

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health · Dec 2, 2019 – Mar 31, 2020 · US national

Methodology

Pollster: The Trevor Project advocacy_left
Sponsor: The Trevor Project
Fielded: Dec 2, 2019 – Mar 31, 2020
Population: LGBTQ young people ages 13-24 - nonprobability social-media-recruited sample, NOT a poll of the general public
Sample size: 40,001
Sample frame: nonprobability quota
Mode: online self-administered questionnaire (maximum 150 questions), quantitative cross-sectional design; suicide items taken from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey
Margin of error: not applicable - nonprobability sample
Weighting: not weighted; targeted recruitment by geography, gender identity and race/ethnicity
Geography: US national
Base notes: 60,795 youth from unique IP addresses consented; 210 lived outside the U.S., 551 were outside the 13-24 range, 6,412 did not meet targeted-recruitment demographic characteristics, 13,343 did not reach the survey midpoint, 205 were not LGBTQ and 73 were mischievous responders, leaving 40,001.

Sources

Verification note. NONPROBABILITY COMMUNITY SAMPLE. Field dates straddle the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (2 December 2019 to 31 March 2020), which matters for any comparison with the 2021 wave. Methodology and percentages read from the report PDF.

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

Questions asked (1)

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suicide consideration and anxiety symptoms by gender identity

40% of LGBTQ respondents seriously considered attempting suicide in the past twelve months, with more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth having seriously considered suicide. 68% of LGBTQ youth reported symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in the past two weeks, including more than 3 in 4 transgender and nonbinary youth.

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2020 National Survey PDF, p.1 introduction. Report narrative; suicide items are the CDC YRBS instruments and the anxiety measure is a generalized anxiety disorder screener.

Symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in the past two weeks

68%

Engaged in self-harm in the past 12 months

48%

Seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months

40%

Wording notes: the trans/nonbinary figures are reported only as fractions ('more than half', 'more than 3 in 4') in the introduction

neutral — Validated public-health instruments.

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