nonprobability quota

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health · Oct 12, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020 · US national

Data flag. INCOMPLETE, NOT WRONG: dates, n=34,759 and wording all verified exact, but toplines are blank for all three items although the source prints them (29/22/49; 7/36/57; 13%).

Methodology

Pollster: The Trevor Project advocacy_left
Sponsor: The Trevor Project
Fielded: Oct 12, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020
Population: LGBTQ young people ages 13-24 - nonprobability social-media-recruited sample, NOT a poll of the general public
Sample size: 34,759
Sample frame: nonprobability quota
Mode: online self-administered questionnaire (maximum 142 questions), quantitative cross-sectional design; suicide items taken from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey to permit comparison with a nationally representative sample
Margin of error: not applicable - nonprobability sample
Weighting: not weighted; instead quota limits were set for race/ethnicity categories during fielding to approximate U.S. composition
Geography: US national
Base notes: 38% of the sample was transgender or nonbinary; 45% were LGBTQ youth of color. 82,147 youth consented; screening, race/ethnicity quotas, a mid-survey validity check and consistency screening reduced this to the final analytic sample.

Sources

Verification note. NONPROBABILITY COMMUNITY SAMPLE of LGBTQ youth recruited through targeted social-media advertising, not a poll of the public and not a probability sample of LGBTQ youth. Methodology paragraph and percentages read directly from the report PDF. The Trevor Project uses 'transgender and nonbinary' as an umbrella term for all non-cisgender respondents, so its TGNB figures are broader than 'transgender' alone.

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

Questions asked (3)

Pronouns & languageotherin a trend series

how many household members respect the respondent's pronouns

SUPPORTING TRANSGENDER & NONBINARY YOUTH

If you live with other people, how many of them respect your pronouns?

neutral — Direct behavioural question about the respondent's own household with an exhaustive, non-leading response set.

Subgroup figures (3)

other

Group	None of the people	All of the people	Some of the people
Transgender and nonbinary youth	49%	29%	22%

Legal documents & IDsparaphrasedotherin a trend series

ability to change legal documents such as driver's licenses and birth certificates

SUPPORTING TRANSGENDER & NONBINARY YOUTH

Transgender & nonbinary youth who wanted to change their legal documents, such as driver's licenses and birth certificates: [Changed legal documents / Planning to change legal documents / Not legally able to change legal documents]

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2021 National Survey PDF, p.10, chart label and response categories. The literal stem was not printed.

neutral — Factual status item.

Subgroup figures (3)

other

Group	Not legally able to change legal documents	Planning to change legal documents	Changed legal documents
Transgender and nonbinary youth who wanted to change their legal documents	57%	36%	7%

Youth medical careparaphrasedotherin a trend series

exposure to conversion therapy, by gender identity

CONVERSION THERAPY

LGBTQ youth who reported being subjected to conversion therapy

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2021 National Survey PDF, p.12, chart label. Literal stem not printed.

neutral — Behavioural exposure item.

Subgroup figures (2)

other

Group	Subjected to conversion therapy
Transgender and nonbinary LGBTQ youth	18%
Cisgender LGBQ youth	9%

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