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VAR CF0886 POOR - INCREASE/DECR FEDERAL SPENDING
COLUMNS 693-693
NUMERIC
MD EQ 9
If you had a say in making up the federal budget this year, for which
(1986 and later: of the following) programs would you like to see
spending increased and for which would you like to see spending
decreased:
Should federal spending on <item> be increased, decreased or kept
about the same?
1992,1996: POOR PEOPLE
2000: AID TO THE POOR
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
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.
Order of items (see also VCF9046-9050) varied from year to year. In
some yeras, the federal budget allocation series was administered with
a break mid-sequence.
1. INCREASED
2. SAME
3. DECREASED OR CUT OUT ENTIRELY
9. DK; NA; INAP, no Post IW (1984); abbvrev. telephone IW (1984)
1992: 923817 1996: 960564 2000: 000680
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Walter Mebane
2003-02-17