VAR CF0928 R CONTACT FROM HOUSE DEM CANDIDATE

VAR CF0928    R CONTACT FROM HOUSE DEM CANDIDATE
              COLUMNS 757-757
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9


        Think of <Democratic candidate> [who has been the U.S. Representative
        from this district/ who ran for the U.S. House of Representatives from
        this district].

        Have you come into contact with or learned anything about (him/her)
        through any of these ways?

        CONTACT WITH DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE
        -------------------------------------------------------------------

        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        For 1984:  if R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was
        running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then
        VCF0928-935 have been coded 9, not 0.  If R was in a district where no
        Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an
        abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0936 has been coded 9, not 0.

        In one district in 1992, two Republican 'incumbents' ran against each
        other (LA06) due to redistricting, but neither candidate had
        previously represented the geographic area corresponding to the
        reconfigured district.  As a result, this race has been treated as
        an open race.  In House-level thermometers, likes/dislikes, contact
        etc., one Republican candidate (always the same one) has been folded
        into the data normally pertaining to the Democratic candidate. VCF0902
        (type of race) code 45 can be used to filter out such 1992 Republican
        cases.

        Responses referring to an independent or 'other' candidate are not
        recorded here for districts having only one major party candidate
        (e.g. type race 23 in VCF0902).

        NOTE:  928-936 have not been altered as a result of corrections to
        1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902).

        For 1986:  in the original NES dataset, 8 major party challengers to
        the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from
        challenger data (SEE VCF0919).  Two of the omitted challengers were
        Democratic:  contact data for them appear in code 9 (NA) in VCF0928-
        936,948.

               1.   Yes
               5.   No, no contact at all

               9.   NA; INAP, no post IW (1980,1984,1988,1992); Washington
                    D.C. ; telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992);
                    question not used
               0.   No Democratic candidate running

        1978:  782013                       1980:  800918,800929,800939
        1982:  820176,820186,820213,820267  1984:  840936,840946,840968

        1986:  860220,860231,860241         1988: 880715,880726,880736
        1990:  900238,900249,900259         1992:  925502
        1994:  940502


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