- 59 percent of college students said it was “Appropriate” for the NYT to publish the data
- Only 19 percent of students said it was “Inappropriate”
- Male college students were 2X as likely as female students to say it was inappropriate for the NYT to release data on Trump’s taxes
The New York Times recently released detailed information on President Trump’s tax returns. We asked 4,995 students currently attending four-year colleges or universities in the United States their thoughts on the matter. We asked students if they believed it was appropriate or inappropriate for the NYT to release Trump’s tax return data. 59 percent said it was “Appropriate,” 19 percent said it was “Inappropriate,” and 23 percent answered “Not sure.”
Majority of Students Think NYT Made the Right Decision to Publish Trump’s Tax Return Data
Do you think it was appropriate or inappropriate for the New York Times to publish data about Trump’s tax returns?
A deeper look into the data reveals student opinion on the issue is not uniform among all demographics. Using College Pulse Insights — our predictive intelligence and statistical analysis platform — to correlate this survey question with the more than 15,000 variables in our database, we found male students were 2X as likely female students to say the NYT’s release was inappropriate.
Male Students More Sympathetic Towards President Trump
Male students 2X as likely as female students to think it was inappropriate for NYT to release Trump’s tax return data
This is not the first time our insights tool has uncovered gender differences in politics. Previous College Pulse data showed male and female students differed in their response the Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.
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Methodology: This poll was designed and conducted by College Pulse. Interviews were conducted among a sample of 4,995 full-time and part-time students attending four-year colleges or universities in the U.S. who are part of College Pulse’s American College Student Panel. To reduce the effects of any non-response bias, a post-stratification adjustment was applied based on demographic distributions from the 2017 Current Population Survey (CPS). The post-stratification weight rebalanced the sample based on the following benchmarks: age, race and ethnicity, and gender. The sample weighting was accomplished using an iterative proportional fitting (IFP) process that simultaneously balances the distributions of all variables. Weights were trimmed to prevent individual interviews from having too much influence on the final results.
About College Pulse: College Pulse is a leading online survey and analytics company dedicated to understanding the attitudes, preferences, and behaviors of today’s college students. College Pulse offers custom data-driven marketing and research solutions, utilizing its unique American College Student Panel and online analytics platform which provides insight to brands, companies, and organizations. College Pulse’s platform includes 240,000 undergraduate college student respondents from more than 800 four-year colleges and universities in all 50 states. To learn more about College Pulse, please contact Jake@collegepulse.com.
