Respondents did not get any further instructions on how to interpret the question and no significant problems were noted during the fielding of the survey. Respondents had an option to not answer the question (they could volunteer “don’t know” or refuse to answer the question). by the Pew Research Center in 1994 and globally in 2002. The question is a long-term trend, first asked in the U.S. The full question wording was, “And which one of these comes closer to your opinion? Homosexuality should be accepted by society OR Homosexuality should not be accepted by society.”
This analysis focuses on whether people around the world think that homosexuality should be accepted by society or not.