VAR CF0612 IS VOTING THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A SAY

VAR CF0612    IS VOTING THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A SAY
              COLUMNS 514-514
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9


        'Voting is the only way that people like me can have any (1956-1964:
        a) say about how the government runs things.'
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        SEE INTRODUCTORY TEXT OF VCF0609.

        The order in which questions VCF0609-VCF0618 appear may vary from
        year to year.

        In 1966 this question was asked as a Likert Scale (i.e., strongly
        agree/ agree/ disagree/ strongly disagree) which was collapsed.

               1.  Agree
               2.  Disagree

               9.  DK; depends; not sure; can't say; refused to say; neither
                      agree nor disagree (1988)
               0.  NA; INAP, no pre IW (1952,1960); no post IW
                      (1968,1976,1980); question not used

        1952:  120         1956:  109   1960:  108
        1964:  175         1966:  116   1968:  518
        1970:  145(type 0) 1972:  270   1974:  2223
        1976:  3816        1978:  352   1980:  1031


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