VAR CF0870 HOW BAD/GOOD WAS ECONOMY IN PAST YEAR COLUMNS 549 - 549 NUMERIC 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ==============================