nonprobability quota

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People · Sep 2022 – Dec 12, 2022 · US national

Methodology

Pollster: The Trevor Project advocacy_left
Sponsor: The Trevor Project
Fielded: Sep 2022 – Dec 12, 2022
Population: LGBTQ young people ages 13-24 - nonprobability social-media-recruited sample, NOT a poll of the general public
Sample size: 28,524
Sample frame: nonprobability quota
Mode: online self-administered questionnaire (maximum 158 questions), quantitative cross-sectional design; suicide items drawn from the CDC Youth Risk Behavior 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: 98,023 individuals from unique IP addresses began the survey; eligibility screening, recruitment quotas, a validity check and mid-point completion requirements produced the final analytic sample.

Sources

Verification note. NONPROBABILITY COMMUNITY SAMPLE recruited through targeted social-media advertising. Methodology paragraph and percentages read from the report PDF. Several of this wave's headline findings are reported only as rounded fractions ('nearly 1 in 3', 'nearly 2 in 3') rather than exact percentages, so those are recorded as null percent with the fraction preserved in the response label.

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

Questions asked (1)

School policyparaphrased5-point scalein a trend series

mental health impact of hearing about laws banning discussion of LGBTQ people at school and of conversion-therapy bans

Anti-LGBTQ Policies

Nearly 1 in 3 LGBTQ young people said their mental health was poor most of the time or always due to anti-LGBTQ policies and legislation. Nearly 2 in 3 LGBTQ young people said that hearing about potential state or local laws banning people from discussing LGBTQ people at school made their mental health a lot worse. Conversely, 79% of LGBTQ young people said hearing about potential state and local laws trying to ban conversion therapy made them feel a little or a lot better.

Wording reconstructed from: The Trevor Project 2023 U.S. National Survey PDF, p.13, 'Anti-LGBTQ Policies' panel. Report restatements, not literal stems.

Hearing about potential state and local laws trying to ban conversion therapy made them feel a little or a lot better

79%

Wording notes: measures self-reported mental-health effect of legislation, not opinion of the legislation

unclear — Literal wording unavailable; the reported framing ('laws banning people from discussing LGBTQ people at school') is a characterization the bills' sponsors dispute.

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