VAR CF0919 R CONTACT WITH HOUSE CHALLENGER

VAR CF0919    R CONTACT WITH HOUSE CHALLENGER
              COLUMNS 748-748
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9


        How about <challenging candidate> who also ran for has been the U.S.
        House of Representative from this district.

        Have you come into  contact with or learned anything about (him/her)
        through any of these ways?

        CONTACT WITH HOUSE INCUMBENT
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        The 1982 dataset included 2 sets of contact vars for 2 running
        incumbents due to redistricting in two congressional districts (19
        cases affected).  For this year, the incumbent who represented R's
        sampling location BEFORE the 1982 redistricting has been considered
        R's 'incumbent' for Cumulative Data File definition.  The other
        candidate, the incumbent previously representing another Congressional
        district (i.e., not previously representing the district of R's sample
        location) has been considered the 'challenger' to the running
        incumbent.  See notes VCF0902 describing congressional districts
        affected and designation of candidates as "the incumbent" and "the
        challenger" in these cases.

        Note that for 1992 redistricted LA06 (2 Republican 'incumbents'
        neither of whom had previously represented the geographic area)
        variables 919-927 have been coded INAP 0.

        NOTE:  919-927 have not been altered as a result of corrections to
        1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902).

        Districts in which the respondent's U.S. House representative was not
        running for re-election have been coded 0.

        For 1984:  if R was in a district where no incumbent was running or
        where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed by a non-major party
        challenger) BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then
        VCF0919-926 have been coded 9, not 0.  If R was in a district where no
        incumbent was running or where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed
        by a non-major party challenger) BUT the interview administered was an
        abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0927 has been coded 9, not 0.

        For 1986:  in the original NES dataset, 8 major party challengers to
        the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from
        challenger data (6 Republican challengers, 2 Democratic challengers).
        Contact data for these individuals have been coded 9  (NA) in
        VCF0919-927 and VCF0947.

             1.   Yes
             5.   No, no contact at all

             9.   NA; INAP, no post IW (1980,1984,1988,1992); Washington D.C.;
                    telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992);
                    question not used
             0.   Incumbent candidate unopposed or not running; challenger not
                    in major party

        1978:  782043                   1980:  800929
        1982:  820186,820213,820223     1984:  840946
        1986:  860231                   1988:  880726
        1990:  900249                   1992:  925502,925513
        1994:  940502,940513


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