Asia Pacific: opinion on legality of being LGBT member by country 2016

This statistic represents the opinion on the legality of being LGBT member by country, based on an online survey conducted from December 2015 to January 2016. According to the survey, 54 percent of respondents in Pakistan believed that being a member of the LGBT community should be a crime, while this share was about 12 percent each in Japan and New Zealand.

Share of population that believe that being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersex should be a crime in the Asia Pacific region in 2016, by country

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Release date

October 2016

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Region

Asia

Survey time period

December 2015 to January 2016

Number of respondents

700+ per country

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The statement phrased by the source as follows: "Being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersex should be a crime."
The figures contain share of respondents that answered with 'Strongly agree' and 'Somewhat agree' to the statement.
The survey fielding approach for this study used RIWI Corp’s (www.riwi.com) patented Random Domain Intercept Technology, which targets random Web users around the world, including remote locations, who are surfing online through an anonymous opt-in survey.

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