CES support or opposition to making abortions illegal in all circumstances, asked with the same wording in four CES waves.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 87% answered “Oppose” in CES: Make abortion illegal in all circumstances, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Make abortions illegal in all circumstances | Make abortions illegal in all circumstances Do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make abortions illegal in all circumstances] Caveat: Intro wording lacks 'On the topic of abortion'; same item otherwise | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Make abortion illegal in all circumstances | Make abortion illegal in all circumstances On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make abortions illegal in all circumstances] Caveat: Same wording and scale | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Make abortion illegal in all circumstances | Make abortion illegal in all circumstances On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make abortions illegal in all circumstances] Caveat: Same wording and scale | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Make abortion illegal in all circumstances | Make abortion illegal in all circumstances On the topic of abortion, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make abortions illegal in all circumstances] Caveat: Same wording and scale | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |