Massachusetts Poll: State of the State - October 16, 2024
October 16, 2024
Word cloud caption (right): In a word or two, what do you think is the most important issue facing Massachusetts?
Toplines, crosstabs, and word clouds linked below
Toplines and Crosstabs
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Poll Highlights and Press Release
- Highlights
UMass Amherst/WCVB Poll Finds Highest Percentage of Massachusetts Residents in Over Four Years Believes Bay State is on the ‘Wrong Track’
Housing situation remains the dominant concern, as more than 4 in 10 respondents say the commonwealth is moving in the wrong direction
- Press Release
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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.