VAR CF0314 NUMBER OF LIKES - DEMOCRATIC PARTY

VAR CF0314    NUMBER OF LIKES - DEMOCRATIC PARTY
              COLUMNS 318-318
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 9


        Is there anything in particular that you like about the Democratic
        party?  What is that? Anything else [you like about the Democratic
        Party]?

        SUMMARY:  NUMBER OF LIKES -- DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        Five possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets.

        MD category 9 comprises cases of systematic question exclusion,
        i.e., when a question was not present within a form (1972,1990,1996)
        or within a wave (1952,1960), or if a question was omitted entirely
        that year (1954,1962,1966, 1970,1974).

        Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you
        like about the Democratic party?" have been coded here as 0
        mentions; Rs coded DK or NA in response to the same question have
        also been coded here as 0 mentions.  In addition, Rs who responded
        "yes" to "Is there anything in particular that you like about the
        Democratic party?" BUT who provided no mentions (DK or NA in first
        mention) have been coded 0 here.

        In 1996 and 2000, the order in which the set of likes/dislikes
        questions was administered for the 2 major parties was randomized
        ('likes' always preceding dislikes).

            0.  Zero positive mentions (likes)
            1.  One positive mention (likes)
            2.  Two positive mentions (likes)
            3.  Three positive mentions (likes)
            4.  Four positive mentions (likes)
            5.  Five positive mentions (likes)

            9.  No pre IW (1952,1960); form II (1972); form B (1986); form A
                (1990); questions not administered in assigned half-sample
                [see VCF012A] (1996); question not asked (1954,1962,1966,
                1970,1974 only)

        1952:  18          1956:  15            1958:  15
        1960:  20          1964:  21            1968:  28
        1972:  31          1976:  3088-3092     1978:  91-95
        1980:  173-177     1982:  74-78         1984:  267-271
        1986:  73-77       1988:  183-187       1990:  74-79
        1992:  3402-3406   1994:  132-136       1996:  960326-330
        2000:  000374-378


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