- Topics:
- Belief in climate change; support for state policies to address climate change; wind turbines; solar panels; net metering
- Survey questionnaire
- Pre-run data tables
- Publications:
- Methodology:
- This survey ran from April 17 to May 16, 2017 and received responses from 841 adult residents of the United States.
- More Information
The following report contains the results of a telephone survey of 841 adult (age 18 or older) residents of the United States between April 17 and May 16, 2017. Respondents were interviewed in English on both landlines (201) and cell phones (640) by the staff of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion (MCIPO) in Allentown, Pennsylvania on the Institute's Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing (CATI) system. Both the landline and cell phone samples were provided by the Marketing Systems Group (MSG), Horsham, Pennsylvania. Both landline and cell phones were chosen randomly from sampling frames of United States landline and cell numbers provided by MSG.
With a randomly selected sample of 841 respondents the margin of error for the surveys is ±3.5% at a 95% level of confidence. Margins of error for questions with smaller sample sizes will be larger. In addition to sampling error, one should consider that question wording and other fielding issues can introduce error or bias into survey results. The sample data has been weighted by age, race, educational attainment, income and gender to reflect population parameters for these factors provided by the United States Census Bureau. The calculation of sampling error takes into account design effects due to the weighting identified above. In order to reach a representative sample of adult Americans both landlines and cell phones are called up to 10 times. The response rate for this survey as calculated using the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) RR3 formula is 9%. Due to rounding, the totals provided in tables may not equal 100.
The instrument was designed by Christopher Borick of Muhlenberg College, Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan, and Sarah Mills of the University of Michigan. For more detailed information on the methods employed please contact the MCIPO at 484-664-3444 or email Dr. Borick at cborick@muhlenberg.edu.
Funding, Financial Disclosure, and Research Transparency
Funding for the NSEE surveys has been provided by general revenues of the University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy, and the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. The authors did not accept any stipend or supplemental income in the completion of the survey or the reports from this survey.
The NSEE is committed to transparency in all facets of our work, including timely release and posting of data from each survey wave. A grant from the Office of the Provost at the University of Michigan has allowed us to provide online access to earlier waves of the NSEE, including frequency tables, survey instruments, and datasets.
