VAR CF0890 PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPENDING - FED BUDGET COLUMNS 556 - 556 NUMERIC MD EQ 9 If you had a say in making up the federal budget this year, for which (1986 and later: of the following) programs would you like to see spending increased and for which would you like to see spending decreased: Should federal spending on <item> be increased, decreased or kept about the same? PUBLIC SCHOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B. Weight variable VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B must be used if distributions including 1970 data are desired: see VCF0010. Note that use of VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B as a weight reduces the 1970 total N for this variable: form 2 whites who should appear as code 0 INAP cases are excluded from the 1970 total N. Order of items (see VCF9046-9050) varied from year to year. In 1988, the federal budget allocation series was administered with a break mid-sequence. 1. INCREASED 2. SAME 3. DECREASED OR CUT OUT ENTIRELY 9. DK; NA; INAP, no Post IW (1984); abbvrev. telephone IW (1984) 1984: 998 1988: 349 1990: 383 1992: 3818 1994: 823 1996: 960562 ==============================