Traditional surveys can overlook people who don’t identify as male or female. Numbers columnist JoshZumbrun looks at the polling challenges.
Right now, pollsters, academics, statisticians—anyone who cares about gathering good data—are finding that one of the trickiest questions to get right is this: “What’s your gender?”
A growing portion of the population doesn’t identify as male or female. Though researchers are still debating how best to measure the transgender or nonbinary populations, recent surveys have found 1-2% of the overall population identifies with the terms. As recently as 2017, an analysis of the limited surveying to that date
. Adults under age 30 are especially likely to say they’re transgender—as high as 3-5% in recent surveys from Gallup Inc. and the Pew Research Center.
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