VAR CF0900 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE

VAR CF0900    CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE
              COLUMNS 702-703
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0


        CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF INTERVIEW
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        Congressional district corresponds to the districting in effect during
        the year of the interview, with the exception of California only for
        1974; the redistricting occurring in California during 1974 was not
        completed in time to be represented in the 1974 study.  District
        numbers associated with 1974 California respondents are the district
        numbers which were in effect in 1973.

        Note that in some years several cases of corrections have been made to
        states and/or Congressional districts due to inconsistencies or errors
        in the original datasets.

        For 1992 'panel' cases, this var provides the 1992 congressional
        district of R's original address (when sample selection was made in
        1990) rather than that of the address at which R was residing in
        1992.  Additionally, even if R did not move since 1990, the
        redistricting which took place in many areas in 1992 may have changed

        1992 SPECIAL NOTE:   Late in 1994, in conjuntion with field work for
        the 1994 NES, it became apparent that in 50 cases of the 1992 NES
        Study an incorrect CD number had been assigned.  These errors affect
        all questions related to House race which are administered according
        to assigned-CD candidate names.  In the introduction to this codebook
        (p.iv) is a listing of 1992 (pre) case IDs with correct congressional
        districts, however no data have been changed in this file as a
        result.  Users of CDF data can delete these cases from affected vars
        if desired.

        For 1994 and 1996 'panel' cases who moved since their original
        interview (1994: first interviewed in 1992; 1994: first interviewed in
        1994 or 1992), VCF0900 records the congressional district where R was
        interviewed for the current Study.  The candidate list information
        also corresponds to the district where R was residing during the
        current Study interview.

         2000 Note:  3 cases were misidentified PA in the Preload but should
         have been NJ. These cases are coded 00.

               CODES 1-52 PLUS:

            98.  At large district
            99.  District of Columbia

            00.  NA; wrong district identified (2000); question not used
                 (1952,1954,1962)

        1956:  560008         1958:  580010      1960:  600011
        1964:  640013         1966:  660011      1968:  680015
        1970:  700025(type 0) 1972:  720006      1974:  742007
        1976:  763007         1978:  780011      1980:  800007
        1982:  820019         1984:  840013      1986:  860049
        1988:  880013         1990:  900013      1992:  923019
        1994:  940015         1996:  960107      1998:  980090
        2000:  000083


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