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VAR CF0875b MOST IMP PROBLEM FULL CODES 1974-LATER
COLUMNS 679-681
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0 OR GE 995
What do you think are the most important problems facing this
country? (IF MORE THAN ONE PROBLEM:) Of those you've mentioned),
what would you say is the single most important problem the country
faces?
'MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM' 1974-later
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
SEE NOTE 7
Because the Most Important Problem master code was significantly
revised for the 1974 study, the full set of codes appear in 2
variables, VCF0875a (1960-1972) and VCF0875b (1974 and later)
If R gave only 1 mention, code for that mention was duplicated in the
'choice' variable, which is used here [exception: 1978, for which
1st mention has been incorporated here for single-mention Rs while
the 4th (choice) var has been used for multiple-mention Rs].
Note that, for cases where R mentioned two or three problems but
missing data (DK or NA) appeared in the fourth or 'choice' variable
(i.e., R did not rank the problems by importance), the first
mention has not been included in VCF0875b, but MD has been coded.
EXCEPTION: in 1986, in 142 cases the interviewer mistakenly did not
ask R to rank problems by importance when R gave more than one
mention. In these 142 cases, the first mention of R was incorporated
into the fourth (ranking) variable and has also been coded here.
In 1996 and 2000, a half-sample of respondents were selected to be
administered this question.
Codes 100-959 and:
990. Other specific mentions of important problems
995. "There were no issues"; "there were no issues, just party
politics"
996. "There was no campaign in my district"
998. DK
999. NA
000. Inap, no post (presidential years); R not selected for
half-sample administration (1996,200); question not used
1974: 2079 1976: 3689 1978: 311,315
1980: 979 1982: 299 1984: 993
1986: 306 1988: 817 1990: 326
1992: 5726 1994: 706 1996: 961141
1998: 980346 2000: 000436
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Walter Mebane
2003-02-17