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VAR CF0937 R CONTACT FROM HOUSE REP CANDIDATE
COLUMNS 766-766
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0 OR GE 9
Think of <Republican 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 REPUBLICAN HOUSE CANDIDATE
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
For 1984: if R was in a district where no Republican candidate was
running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then
VCF0937-944 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no
Republican candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an
abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0945 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 [SEE
VCF0928-936]. VCF0902 (type of race) code 45 can be used to filter
such 1992 Republican cases from "Democratic" variables.
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: 937-945 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). Six of the omitted challengers were
Republican: contact data for them appear in code 9 (NA) in VCF0937-
945,949.
1. Yes
5. No
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 Republican candidate running
1978: 782023 1980: 800918,800929,800949
1982: 820176,820186,820223,820277 1984: 840936,840946,840978
1986: 860220,860231,860251 1988: 880715,880726,880746
1990: 900238,900249,900269 1992: 925513
1994: 940513
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Walter Mebane
2003-02-17