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Williams Institute (UCLA)
Global Attitudes Toward Transgender People - U.S. panel · Jan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- Williams Institute (UCLA) commercial
- Sponsor
- Ipsos
- Fielded
- Jan 2017 – Dec 31, 2017
- Population
- adults ages 18-64, English-speaking
- Sample size
- 1,000
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- Ipsos online panel
- Mode
- online panel
- Margin of error
- not disclosed
- Weighting
- adjusted to reflect the U.S. population ages 18-64
- Geography
- US national
- Base notes
- U.S. arm of a multi-country study; restricted to ages 18-64
Sources
Verification note. percentages, sample size, mode and weighting read from the Williams Institute's U.S. report on the Ipsos Global Attitudes Toward Transgender People survey. Exact field dates were not given and are recorded at year precision. NOTE ON COMPARABILITY: this sample is restricted to ages 18-64 and to English speakers, so it is not directly comparable with general-adult U.S. samples - the exclusion of over-65s biases it toward the more supportive end.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (4)
general protection of transgender people from discrimination
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
Transgender people should be protected from discrimination.
Wording reconstructed from: the Williams Institute report quotes the item as 'should be protected from discrimination'; the full Ipsos stem was not retrieved
Wording notes: abstract 'protected from discrimination' framing without naming domains, which sits between Gallup's abstract 'new civil rights laws' item and PRRI's concrete jobs/housing/accommodations item | agree/disagree construction, subject to acquiescence
unclear — agree/disagree construction on a one-sided affirming proposition; wording not verified against the Ipsos instrument
access to gender-affirming surgery
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
Transgender people should be allowed to have gender-affirming surgery.
Wording reconstructed from: the Williams Institute report quotes the item as 'should be allowed to have gender-affirming surgery'
Wording notes: does not specify age, payer or provider - a permissive framing relative to later items that name minors or insurance
unclear — agree/disagree construction; wording not verified
whether the U.S. should do more to support and protect transgender people
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
I would like the U.S. to do more to support and protect transgender people.
Wording reconstructed from: the Williams Institute report quotes the item as wanting 'the U.S. to do more to support and protect transgender people'
Wording notes: a 'do more' item, which measures desired direction of change rather than support for a specific policy - it draws 22 points less agreement than the abstract nondiscrimination item in the same battery
unclear — agree/disagree construction; wording not verified
perceived direction of societal tolerance
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of the following statements.
The U.S. is becoming more tolerant of transgender people.
Wording reconstructed from: the Williams Institute report quotes the item as 'the U.S. is becoming more tolerant of transgender people'
Wording notes: a perception item, not an attitude item - agreement does not indicate the respondent's own view
unclear — agree/disagree construction; wording not verified