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The Economist/YouGov Poll · Mar 12–15, 2022 · US national
Methodology
- Pollster
- YouGov commercial
- Sponsor
- The Economist
- Commissioned by
- The Economist
- Fielded
- Mar 12–15, 2022
- Population
- adult citizens
- Sample size
- 1,500
- Sample frame
- online opt-in
- Panel
- YouGov Panel
- Mode
- Web-based interviews; respondents selected from YouGov's opt-in Internet panel using sample matching against a stratified random sample drawn from the American Community Survey
- Margin of error
- ±2.9% (adjusted for weighting)
- Weighting
- Weighted to U.S. adult population targets on gender, age, race, education and prior presidential vote; full weighting statement in the source PDF.
- Geography
- US national
Sources
Verification note. Crosstab PDF downloaded and parsed; totals and Party ID columns read directly and verified to sum to 99-101%.
Figures below are transcribed from these documents. Where they disagree with the source, the source governs.
Questions asked (6)
self-rated understanding of what being transgender means
How well do you feel you understand what it means for someone to identify as transgender?
Moderately well
35%
Very well
21%
Extremely well
17%
Not too well
15%
Not well at all
13%
neutral — standard self-rated comprehension scale; useful as a knowledge covariate for the policy items in the same wave
Subgroup figures (15)
perceived level of discrimination against transgender people
How much discrimination do you think there is against people who are transgender in the United States today?
A lot
46%
A little
28%
None
10%
Not sure
15%
neutral — first Economist/YouGov fielding of this wording; repeated in May 2023 and April 2023
Subgroup figures (12)
transgender student athletes on teams matching gender identity
Transgender Issues -- Allowing transgender student athletes to play on sports teams that match their gender identity, rather than the gender they were assigned at birth?
We will now ask you to share your opinion on a number of different issues relating to transgender people in the United States. Do you support or oppose...
Wording notes: identical battery repeated in the April 8-11 2023 Economist/YouGov poll, so the two are directly comparable
neutral — balanced four-point support/oppose with a Not sure; the battery stem announces the topic in advance, which can prime topic-consistent answering
Subgroup figures (15)
knowing someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns
Do you personally know anyone who uses gender-neutral pronouns such as "they" instead of "he" or "she" when referring to themselves?
neutral — factual contact item
Subgroup figures (9)
comfort using a gender-neutral pronoun on request
How comfortable, if at all, would you feel using a gender-neutral pronoun to refer to someone if they asked you to do so?
Very uncomfortable
28%
Very comfortable
27%
Somewhat comfortable
24%
Somewhat uncomfortable
22%
Wording notes: no Not sure category offered | asks about personal behaviour on request rather than about compulsion
neutral — a fair test of voluntary accommodation; note it is not the same construct as the 'compelled speech' framing used by restrictive advocacy
Subgroup figures (12)
personal experience of being asked to share pronouns
Have you ever been asked or required to share your own pronouns, either in person or on a form?
Wording notes: conflates 'asked' and 'required', which are the two sides of the compelled-speech dispute
neutral — double-barrelled in a mild way (asked or required), so it cannot separate voluntary from mandatory pronoun-sharing
Subgroup figures (9)