VAR CF0318 NUMBER OF LIKES - REPUBLICAN PARTY

VAR CF0318    NUMBER OF LIKES - REPUBLICAN PARTY
              COLUMNS 324-324
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 9


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

        SUMMARY: NUMBER OF LIKES -- REPUBLICAN 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 Republican 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
        Republican 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:  20           1956:  17           1958:  17
        1960:  22           1964:  23           1968:  30
        1972:  35           1976:  3100-3104    1978:  103-107
        1980:  185-189      1982:  86-90        1984:  279-283
        1986:  85-89        1988:  195-199      1990:  86-91
        1992:  3414-3418    1994:  144-148      1996:  960314-318
        2000:  000386-390


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