Support for same-sex marriage (North & South America)

Source
AmericasBarometer
Date
2010
Regions Surveyed
25

Full Survey Results

Around 1,500 respondents were interviewed face-to-face in each country, except in Bolivia and Ecuador, where the samples were approximately 3,000. The Canada and the U.S. are web-based surveys. Non-response to this question was 3.23% for the sample as a whole.

Question: "How strongly do you approve or disapprove of same-sex couples having the right to marry?"

Support
Survey Average (Unweighted)
26.8%
  1. 1. Canada
    63.9%
  2. 57.7%
  3. 3. Uruguay
    50.5%
  4. 47.4%
  5. 5. Brazil
    39.8%
  6. 6. Chile
    39.7%
  7. 7. Mexico
    37.8%
  8. 34.4%
  9. 9. Peru
    26.3%
  10. 10. Bolivia
    24.7%
  11. 11. Panama
    22.8%
  12. 12. Honduras
    22.6%
  13. 13. Venezuela
    22.5%
  14. 20.7%
  15. 15. Suriname
    20.3%
  16. 18.6%
  17. 17. Ecuador
    18.4%
  18. 18. Belize
    17.5%
  19. 19. Guatemala
    16.5%
  20. 20. Paraguay
    16.1%
  21. 21. Nicaragua
    15.6%
  22. 15.4%
  23. 10.3%
  24. 24. Guyana
    7.2%
  25. 25. Jamaica
    3.5%

Regions are ranked by the percentage of "support" responses out of the total responses (excluding participants who answered "don't know" or refused to answer).

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