Subgroup Analysis in Polls of Black Americans

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Subgroup analysis by age, education, sex, or other demographics may be possible in a moderately sized Black American sample of a few hundred. More granular analysis by multiple demographics - such as older Black women or Black men with college educations - requires substantially larger samples.

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Table 1: A demographic chart by education from a 1988 Newsweek poll with a sample of 504 Black Americans.
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Table 2: Another chart by age from the 1988 Newsweek poll with a sample of 504 Black Americans.
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Table 3: An example chart by age from the 1989 USA Today poll with a sample of 601 Black Americans.
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Table 4: Another example chart by education from a USA Today poll, this one from 1990 with a sample size of 402 Black Americans who had heard about Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court Nomination..
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Table 5: Another example chart by gender from the 1989 USA Today poll.

 

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