How the Survey was Conducted Nature of th e Sa mpl e: McClatchy-Marist Poll of 1, 13 2

National

Adults

This survey of 1,132 adults was conducted August 1

st

through August 3

rd

, 2016 by The Marist Poll

sponsored and funded in partnership w ith McClatchy New s Service. Adults 18 years o f age and older

residing in the contiguous United States were contacted on landline or mobile numbers and interviewed

in English by telephone using live interviewers. Landline telephone numbers were randomly selected

based upon a list of telephone exchanges from throughout the nation from ASDE Survey Sampler, Inc.

The exchanges were selected to ensure that each region was represented in proportion to its population.

Respondents in the household w ere randomly selected by first asking for the youngest male. This

landline sample was combined with respondents reached through random dialing of cell phone numbers

from Survey Sampling International. After the interviews were completed, the two samples were

combined and balanced to reflect the 2013 American Community Survey 1-year estimates for age,

gender, income, race, and region. Results are statis tically significant w ithin ±2.9 percenta ge points.

There are 983 registere d voters. The results f or this subset are statistically significant within ±3.1

percentage points. The error margin was not adjusted for s ample weights and inc reases for cross-

tabulations.