VAR CF0015b ABBREV. IW - POST

VAR CF0015b   ABBREV. IW - POST
              COLUMNS 84-84
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 9


        ABBREVIATED INTERVIEW FORM - POST
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        VCF0015A and VCF0015B codes other than 0 indicate cases where the
        interview is shortened or lacking specific questions due to
        administrative problems or considerations (e.g. accomodation for mail
        or telephone mode). This flagging does not include Presidential year
        non-reinterview cases (no-post-IW cases are indicated in VCF0013) nor
        'Form' design assignments (see VCF0012, VCF0012A and VCF0012B).

        1992 NOTE:  In addition to the 'long-form' or full questionnaires
        designed for personal interviewing, short-form questionnaires for
        telephone administration were prepared in both the pre and post waves
        for panel cases of respondents who had since 1990 moved out of range
        possible for personal interviews.  Please see the full 1992 NES
        documentation for a complete description of study administration.
        See also VCF0017 and note that, contrary to the intentions of the
        study design, use of the short-form questionnaire was not limited to
        telephone mode, nor was long-form use confined to personal mode
        interviewing.  [Note also that in several cases the shorter interview
        was administered to 'cross-section' respondents-- 4 cases pre, 4 cases
        post].

        1996 NOTE:  CAPI interviewing (Computer Assisted Personal
        Interviewing) was introduced in 1996, and the Post 'VQ file' or CAPI
        application was revised several times while in the field.  Some cases
        in the Post were mistakenly administered using a pre-production
        (training) VQ file which lacked several questions intended for the
        Post instrument.  All interviews administered with other versions of
        the VQ file included those questions. This variable identifies
        interviews administered using the training VQ.

        1952:  520003
           1. Post IW is NOT Form B (not extended reinterview), or no post IW
           0. Post IW is Form B (585 CASES: extended reinterview, 29
                 additional questions)

        1968:  680005
           1. Post IW is mail questionnaire (36 CASES:  shortened IW)
           0. Post IW is NOT mail questionnaire, or no post IW

        1972:  720003
           1. Post IW is mail questionnaire: sent to respondents who were
              Form I in the pre-election wave (57 CASES:  these respondents
              were designated Form III in post and were asked fewer
              questions than in personal interview)
           2. Post IW is mail questionnaire: sent to respondents who were Form
              II in the pre-election wave (37 CASES:  these respondents
              designated Form IV in post and were asked fewer questions
              than in personal interview)
          0. Post IW is NOT mail questionnaire, or no post IW

        1984:  840064
            1. Post IW is telephone questionnaire (966 CASES: fewer questions
               than personal questionnaire)
            2. Post IW is abbreviated telephone questionnaire (45 CASES: fewer
               questions than personal questionnaire or full telephone
               questionnaire)
            0. Post IW is personal questionnaire (978 CASES) or no Post IW

        1992:  925002
               SEE NOTE ABOVE.  The Ns below are unweighted.
            1. Short-form Post (190 CASES)
            0. Long-form Post (2046 CASES), Spanish Post (19 cases), or
               no Post IW [Note that the Post Spanish form was a
               translation of the long Post questionnaire]

        1996:  960909

            1. Training VQ; Post variables dropped (39 cases)
            0. Training VQ not used, no Post variables dropped (1495 cases);
               no Post IW

        all other years:
        9. Not applicable to this study


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