VAR CF0402 NUMBER OF DISLIKES -DEM CANDIDATE COLUMNS 311 - 311 NUMERIC MD EQ 9 Is there anything in particular about <Democratic presidential candidate> that might make you want to vote against him? What is that? Anything else? SUMMARY: NUMBER OF DISLIKES -- DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) or within a wave (1952,1960), or if a question was omitted entirely that year (1954,1958,1962, 1966,1970,1974,1978,1982,1986). Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you dislike about the Democratic presidential candidate?" 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 dislike about the Democratic presidential candidate?" BUT who provided no mentions (DK or NA in first mention) have been coded 0 here. This variable refers to Stevenson for 1952 and 1956, Kennedy for 1960, Johnson for 1964, Humphrey for 1968, McGovern for 1972, Carter for 1976 and 1980, Mondale for 1984, Dukakis for 1988, and Clinton for 1992 and 1996. In 1996, randomization occurred for the order in which the 3 major Presidential candidate names were administered for the set of 'likes/dislikes' questions; note that for each candidate 'likes' preceded 'dislikes,' and both 'likes' and 'dislikes' questions were administered for one candidate before questions concerning the next candidate were begun. 0. Zero negative mentions (dislikes) 1. One negative mention (dislikes) 2. Two negative mentions (dislikes) 3. Three negative mentions (dislikes) 4. Four negative mentions (dislikes) 5. Five negative mentions (dislikes) 9. INAP, no pre IW (1952,1960); form II (1972); abbreviated IW form (1980); question not used (1948 and non-presidential years) 1952: 28 1956: 20 1960: 25 1964: 26 1968: 33 1972: 41 1976: 3118-3122 1980: 108-112 1984: 10 1988: 122-126 1992: 3128-3132 1996: 960212-960216 ==============================