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VAR CF0870 HOW BAD/GOOD WAS ECONOMY IN PAST YEAR

VAR CF0870    HOW BAD/GOOD WAS ECONOMY IN PAST YEAR                           
              COLUMNS 549  - 549                                              
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              MD EQ 0 OR GE 8                                                 

        How about (1996-later: Now thinking about) the economy (1990,1994-    
        later: in the country as a whole)?                                    
                                                                              
        Would you say that over the past year the nation's economy has gotten 
        better, stayed (all yrs. exc 1984: about) the same or gotten worse?   
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
               1.  Better                                                     
               3.  Stayed same                                                
               5.  Worse                                                      
                                                                              
               0.  INAP, DK; NA; question not used                            
                                                                              
        1980:  150      1982:  328     1984:  228                             
        1986:  373      1988:  244     1990:  423                             
        1992:  3532     1994:  909     1996:  960386                          
        1998:  980418                                                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
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Walter Mebane
Mon Nov 12 02:55:58 EST 2001