VAR CF0624 DO ELECTIONS MAKE GOVT PAY ATTENTION

VAR CF0624    DO ELECTIONS MAKE GOVT PAY ATTENTION
              COLUMNS 526-526
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0


        (And) How much do you feel that having elections makes 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.

        In 1988, the placement of this variable within Post question order
        varied according to questionnaire 'Form' (see VCF0012).

               1.  Not much
               2.  Some
               3.  A good deal
               9.  DK; other; depends; can't say

               0.  NA; INAP, no post IW (1964,1968,1972,1976,1980,1988,
                   1992,1996,2000); form III, IV (1972); question not used

        1964:  392          1966:  177       1968:  492
        1970:  157(type 1)  1972:  577       1974:  2236
        1976:  3743         1978:  418       1980:  890
        1984:  309          1988:  959       1992:  6124
        1996:  961255       1998:  980522    2000:  001538


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