The Texas Lyceum Poll

The inaugural 2007 Texas Lyceum Poll focused on public attitudes towards religion, issues of public morality and ethics, and the separation of church and state. The poll also measured the mood of the public, issue priorities for both the nation and state, and election preferences in advance of the 2008 election cycle.

2007 Texas Lyceum Poll Statewide Results

June 12th, 2007 June 13th, 2007 June 14th, 2007

Methodology

The 2007 Texas Lyceum Poll is a random-digit dial telephone survery of Texas adults. Telephone coverage within the state of Texas is approximately 97%. Randomized selection procedures were assiduously followed throughout the process, even at the level of selecting individuals within the household. The final sample size is 1,000 adult Texans. The instrument itself relies on questions that have been used previously in national polls, and have been shown to be both valid (correlating with plausible independent and dependent variables) and reliable (robust to question order and interviewer effects). A Spanish version of the instrument was developed and respondents were given a choice of participating in English or Spanish. Bilingual interviewers were utilized, and approximately 60 interviews (6% of the sample) were completed in Spanish. The overall response rate (completed interviews / contacts) is 40%. This rate is partially the result of an extended time in the field, which facilitated call-backs. The overall margin of error for the sample is +/- 3.0 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The data used to generate top-lines and tables are weighted by U.S. Census Bureau estimates with respect to age, gender, and race. For example, Census data indicate the proportion of 18-29 year old Hispanic females in Texas, and we use these estimates to weight the survey data. As expected, the most significant weights are applied to young, male, minority respondents (who are under-represented here, as they are in almost all polls in the U.S.).

July 13th, 2007