VAR CF0875b MOST IMP PROBLEM FULL CODES 1974-LATER

VAR CF0875b   MOST IMP PROBLEM FULL CODES 1974-LATER
              COLUMNS 679-681
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 995

        What do you think are the most important problems facing this
        country?  (IF MORE THAN ONE PROBLEM:) Of those you've mentioned),
        what would you say is the single most important problem the country
        faces?

        'MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM' 1974-later
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        SEE NOTE 7

        Because the Most Important Problem master code was significantly
        revised for the 1974 study, the full set of codes appear in 2
        variables, VCF0875a (1960-1972) and VCF0875b (1974 and later)

        If R gave only 1 mention, code for that mention was duplicated in the
        'choice' variable, which is used here [exception: 1978, for which
        1st mention has been incorporated here for single-mention Rs while
        the 4th (choice) var has been used for multiple-mention Rs].

        Note that, for cases where R mentioned two or three problems but
        missing data (DK or NA) appeared in the fourth or  'choice' variable
        (i.e., R did not rank the problems by importance), the first
        mention has not been included in VCF0875b, but MD has been coded.
        EXCEPTION: in 1986, in 142 cases the interviewer mistakenly did not
        ask R to rank problems by importance when R gave more than one
        mention.  In these 142 cases, the first mention of R was incorporated
        into the fourth (ranking) variable and has also been coded here.

        In 1996 and 2000, a half-sample of respondents were selected to be
        administered this question.

        Codes 100-959 and:

         990. Other specific mentions of important problems

         995. "There were no issues"; "there were no issues, just party
              politics"
         996. "There was no campaign in my district"
         998. DK
         999. NA
         000. Inap, no post (presidential years); R not selected for
              half-sample administration (1996,200); question not used

        1974:  2079     1976:  3689         1978:  311,315
        1980:  979      1982:  299          1984:  993
        1986:  306      1988:  817          1990:  326
        1992:  5726     1994:  706          1996:  961141
        1998:  980346   2000:  000436


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