VAR CF0623 DO PARTIES MAKE GOVT PAY ATTENTION

VAR CF0623    DO PARTIES MAKE GOVT PAY ATTENTION
              COLUMNS 525-525
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9


        How much do you feel that political parties help to make the
        government pay attention to what the people think, a good deal, some
        or not much?
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B.

        Weight variable VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B must be used if
        distributions including 1970 data are desired:  see VCF0010.
        Note that use of VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B as a weight reduces the
        1970 total N for this variable:  form 2 whites who should appear as
        code 0 INAP cases are excluded from the 1970 total N.

        Except for 1976 and 1980, this question was preceded by the
        introduction appearing for VCF0604.  The order of Study year questions
        corresponding to Cumultive File vars VCF0605-VCF0608,VCF0622-VCF0625
        may have varied from year to year.

             1.  Not much
             2.  Some
             3.  A good deal

             9.  DK; other; depends; can't say
             0.  NA; INAP, no post IW (1964,1968,1972,1976,1980); form III, IV
                 (1972);  question not used

        1964:  391   1968:  491      1970:  156(type 1)
        1972:  576   1974:  2235     1976:  3742
        1978:  417   1980:  889


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