{
  "alt": "Dot chart with one row for a household gun and one for each of six gun policies, and three dots per row for Democrats, independents and Republicans, with interval lines. The Democratic dot is to the left of the Republican dot for household ownership, and to the right of it on the six policy items. The gap is {fact:ns_bg_gap} points on background checks, {fact:ns_ban_gap} on banning all guns and {fact:ns_assault_gap} on banning assault rifles. The independent dot lies between the party dots on the policy items.",
  "caption": "The Democratic and Republican dots are closest on background checks, where the Republican dot is at {fact:ns_bg_r}, and farthest on the assault rifle, magazine and gun control items. The independent dot lies between the party dots on every policy item. Each dot is a weighted share with a 95% confidence interval that rests on a model.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 29.809,
      "conf_low": 29.1531,
      "estimate": 29.481,
      "item": "A household member owns a gun",
      "n": 206052,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 32.1765,
      "conf_low": 30.8739,
      "estimate": 31.5252,
      "item": "A household member owns a gun",
      "n": 51285,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 51.8477,
      "conf_low": 51.089,
      "estimate": 51.4683,
      "item": "A household member owns a gun",
      "n": 172984,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 95.1481,
      "conf_low": 94.832,
      "estimate": 94.99,
      "item": "Background checks for all purchases",
      "n": 202676,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 92.5585,
      "conf_low": 91.7789,
      "estimate": 92.1687,
      "item": "Background checks for all purchases",
      "n": 47888,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 89.4574,
      "conf_low": 88.9823,
      "estimate": 89.2199,
      "item": "Background checks for all purchases",
      "n": 169429,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 84.2758,
      "conf_low": 83.259,
      "estimate": 83.7674,
      "item": "Public registry of gun ownership",
      "n": 55877,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 70.0752,
      "conf_low": 67.381,
      "estimate": 68.7281,
      "item": "Public registry of gun ownership",
      "n": 12023,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 52.2018,
      "conf_low": 50.7494,
      "estimate": 51.4756,
      "item": "Public registry of gun ownership",
      "n": 47159,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 83.2148,
      "conf_low": 82.6503,
      "estimate": 82.9325,
      "item": "Ban assault rifles",
      "n": 188159,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 63.9938,
      "conf_low": 62.4847,
      "estimate": 63.2393,
      "item": "Ban assault rifles",
      "n": 41063,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 48.7412,
      "conf_low": 47.9433,
      "estimate": 48.3423,
      "item": "Ban assault rifles",
      "n": 155727,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 80.2624,
      "conf_low": 79.6303,
      "estimate": 79.9464,
      "item": "Limit magazines to 10 bullets",
      "n": 169663,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 60.1674,
      "conf_low": 58.5356,
      "estimate": 59.3515,
      "item": "Limit magazines to 10 bullets",
      "n": 36583,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 46.733,
      "conf_low": 45.9109,
      "estimate": 46.3219,
      "item": "Limit magazines to 10 bullets",
      "n": 146106,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 33.1908,
      "conf_low": 32.4726,
      "estimate": 32.8317,
      "item": "Ban all guns",
      "n": 181840,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 21.3901,
      "conf_low": 20.1564,
      "estimate": 20.7733,
      "item": "Ban all guns",
      "n": 43791,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 12.0327,
      "conf_low": 11.5361,
      "estimate": 11.7844,
      "item": "Ban all guns",
      "n": 167429,
      "party": "Republicans"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 79.8458,
      "conf_low": 78.4711,
      "estimate": 79.1585,
      "item": "Controlling who owns guns matters more than the right to own",
      "n": 36694,
      "party": "Democrats"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 60.8788,
      "conf_low": 57.4901,
      "estimate": 59.1845,
      "item": "Controlling who owns guns matters more than the right to own",
      "n": 8418,
      "party": "Independents"
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 44.5333,
      "conf_low": 42.7946,
      "estimate": 43.6639,
      "item": "Controlling who owns guns matters more than the right to own",
      "n": 31937,
      "party": "Republicans"
    }
  ],
  "id": "nationscape",
  "notes": [
    "Party is the three-category party question with the follow-up that Nationscape asks of independents in every week, so Democrats and Republicans include leaners and independents lean toward neither, as in the other surveys. Weeks after 28 December 2020 are left out.",
    "The registry item was asked through mid-January 2021 and the control item from mid-September 2019, so the items cover different weeks. Each share rests on weekly waves pooled with the Nationscape weight."
  ],
  "source": "Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape, July 2019 to December 2020; weighted (weight), opt-in panel",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "Democrats": "dem",
      "Independents": "ind",
      "Republicans": "rep"
    },
    "group": "party",
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "legend": true,
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "sort": "data",
    "x": "estimate",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      100
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 0
    },
    "xLabel": "Share giving the answer (%)",
    "y": "item"
  },
  "subtitle": "Share owning a gun in the household or supporting each gun policy, by party identification; leaners are in the parties and independents lean toward neither; July 2019 to December 2020 pooled; 95% intervals from an opt-in panel",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "item",
        "label": "Item"
      },
      {
        "key": "party",
        "label": "Group"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "estimate",
        "label": "Share (%)"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_low",
        "label": "Lower"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "digits": 1
        },
        "key": "conf_high",
        "label": "Upper"
      },
      {
        "format": {
          "thousands": true
        },
        "key": "n",
        "label": "Respondents"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "In Nationscape the parties differed on every gun item and differed least on background checks",
  "type": "dot",
  "width": "wide"
}