VAR CF0015B ABBREV. IW - POST COLUMNS 84 - 84 NUMERIC MD EQ 9 ABBREVIATED INTERVIEW FORM - POST ------------------------------------------------------------------- VCF0015A and VCF0015B codes other than 0 indicate cases where the interview is shortened or lacking specific questions due to administrative problems or considerations (e.g. accomodation for mail or telephone mode). This flagging does not include Presidential year non-reinterview cases (no-post-IW cases are indicated in VCF0013) nor 'Form' design assignments (see VCF0012, VCF0012A and VCF0012B). 1992 NOTE: In addition to the 'long-form' or full questionnaires designed for personal interviewing, short-form questionnaires for telephone administration were prepared in both the pre and post waves for panel cases of respondents who had since 1990 moved out of range possible for personal interviews. Please see the full 1992 NES documentation for a complete description of study administration. See also VCF0017 and note that, contrary to the intentions of the study design, use of the short-form questionnaire was not limited to telephone mode, nor was long-form use confined to personal mode interviewing. [Note also that in several cases the shorter interview was administered to 'cross-section' respondents-- 4 cases pre, 4 cases post]. 1996 NOTE: CAPI interviewing (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) was introduced in 1996, and the Post 'VQ file' or CAPI application was revised several times while in the field. Some cases in the Post were mistakenly administered using a pre-production (training) VQ file which lacked several questions intended for the Post instrument. All interviews administered with other versions of the VQ file included those questions. This variable identifies interviews administered using the training VQ. 1952: 520003 1. Post IW is NOT Form B (not extended reinterview), or no post IW 0. Post IW is Form B (585 CASES: extended reinterview, 29 additional questions) 1968: 680005 1. Post IW is mail questionnaire (36 CASES: shortened IW) 0. Post IW is NOT mail questionnaire, or no post IW 1972: 720003 1. Post IW is mail questionnaire: sent to respondents who were Form I in the pre-election wave (57 CASES: these respondents were designated Form III in post and were asked fewer questions than in personal interview) 2. Post IW is mail questionnaire: sent to respondents who were Form II in the pre-election wave (37 CASES: these respondents designated Form IV in post and were asked fewer questions than in personal interview) 0. Post IW is NOT mail questionnaire, or no post IW 1984: 840064 1. Post IW is telephone questionnaire (966 CASES: fewer questions than personal questionnaire) 2. Post IW is abbreviated telephone questionnaire (45 CASES: fewer questions than personal questionnaire or full telephone questionnaire) 0. Post IW is personal questionnaire (978 CASES) or no Post IW 1992: 925002 SEE NOTE ABOVE. The Ns below are unweighted. 1. Short-form Post (190 CASES) 0. Long-form Post (2046 CASES), Spanish Post (19 cases), or no Post IW [Note that the Post Spanish form was a translation of the long Post questionnaire] 1996: 960909 1. Training VQ; Post variables dropped (39 cases) 0. Training VQ not used, no Post variables dropped (1495 cases); no Post IW all other years: 9. Not applicable to this study ==============================