Mass Voters & the 2024 Election - October 15, 2024
October 15, 2024
Word cloud caption (right): What one word would you use to describe the Massachusetts State Legislature?
Toplines, crosstabs, and word cloud linked below
Toplines and Crosstabs
- Download TOPLINES and CROSSTABS here
Poll Highlights and Press Release
- Highlights
UMass Amherst/WCVB Poll Finds Bay State Residents Evenly Split on ‘Psychedelics,’ Majority Support Eliminating MCAS as High School Graduation Requirement and Other Ballot Questions
Survey shows 3 in 4 respondents concerned about the possibility of violence associated with the presidential contest
- Press Release
Find the full press release on our News and Media Relations page HERE.
Poll Contact and Methods
- Poll Contact
Tatishe Nteta (nteta@umass.edu)
- Methods
Field Dates: October 3 –10, 2024 | Sample: 700 Respondents | Margin of Error: 4.8%
YouGov interviewed 700 Massachusetts respondents and were weighted to the sampling frame using propensity scores. The sampling frame is a politically representative "modeled frame" of US adults subsetted on Massachusetts residents, based upon the American Community Survey (ACS) public use microdata file, public voter file records, the 2020 Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration supplements, the 2020 National Election Pool (NEP) exit poll, and the 2020 CES surveys, including demographics and 2020 presidential vote.
The cases and the frame were combined, and a logistic regression was estimated for inclusion in the frame. The propensity score function included age, gender, race/ethnicity, years of education, and homeownership. The propensity scores were grouped into deciles of the estimated propensity score in the frame and post-stratified according to these deciles.
The weights were then post-stratified on homeownership, the 2020 presidential vote choice, as well as a four-way stratification of gender, age (4-categories), race (4-categories), and education (4-categories), to produce the final weight.