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VAR CF0314 NUMBER OF LIKES - DEMOCRATIC PARTY

VAR CF0314    NUMBER OF LIKES - DEMOCRATIC PARTY                              
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              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 9

        Is there anything in particular that you like about the Democratic    
        party?  What is that? Anything else [you like about the Democratic    
        Party]?                                                               
                                                                              
        SUMMARY:  NUMBER OF LIKES -- DEMOCRATIC PARTY                         
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        Five possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets.       
                                                                              
        MD category 9 comprises cases of systematic question exclusion,       
        i.e., when a question was not present within a form (1972,1990,1996)  
        or within a wave (1952,1960), or if a question was omitted entirely   
        that year (1954,1962,1966, 1970,1974).                                
                                                                              
        Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you    
        like about the Democratic party?" have been coded here as 0           
        mentions; Rs coded DK or NA in response to the same question have     
        also been coded here as 0 mentions.  In addition, Rs who responded    
        "yes" to "Is there anything in particular that you like about the     
        Democratic party?" BUT who provided no mentions (DK or NA in first    
        mention) have been coded 0 here.                                      
                                                                              
        In 1996, the order in which the set of likes/dislikes questions was   
        administered for the 2 major parties was randomized ('likes' always   
        preceding dislikes).                                                  
                                                                              
            0.  Zero positive mentions (likes)                                
            1.  One positive mention (likes)                                  
            2.  Two positive mentions (likes)                                 
            3.  Three positive mentions (likes)                               
            4.  Four positive mentions (likes)                                
            5.  Five positive mentions (likes)                                
                                                                              
            9.  No pre IW (1952,1960); form II (1972); form B (1986); form A  
                (1990); questions not administered in assigned half-sample    
                [see VCF012A] (1996); question not asked (1954,1962,1966,     
                1970,1974 only)                                               
                                                                              
        1952:  18         1956:  15           1958:  15                       
        1960:  20         1964:  21           1968:  28                       
        1972:  31         1976:  3088-3092    1978:  91-95                    
        1980:  173-177    1982:  74-78        1984:  267-271                  
        1986:  73-77      1988:  183-187      1990:  74-79                    
        1992:  3402-3406  1994:  132-136      1996:  960326-330               
                                                                              
                                                                              
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Walter Mebane
Mon Nov 12 02:55:58 EST 2001