VAR CF0910 R CONTACT W/ HOUSE RUNNING INCUMBENT COLUMNS 578 - 578 NUMERIC MD EQ 0 OR GE 9 There are many ways in which (U.S. Representatives/congressional candidates) can have contact with the people from their districts. On this page are some of these ways. Think of <incumbent candidate> (who has been the U.S. Representative/ who ran for the U.S. House of Representatives) from this district. Have you come into contact with or learned anything about (him/her) through any of these ways? (LIST SHOWN TO R) CONTACT WITH HOUSE INCUMBENT ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. The 1982 dataset included 2 sets of contact vars for 2 running incumbents due to redistricting in two congressional districts (19 cases affected). For this year, the incumbent who represented R's sampling location BEFORE the 1982 redistricting has been considered R's 'incumbent' for Cumulative Data File definition. The other candidate, the incumbent previously representing another Congressional district (i.e., not previously representing the district of R's sample location) has been considered the 'challenger' to the running incumbent. See notes VCF0902 describing congressional districts affected and designation of candidates as "the incumbent" and "the challenger" in these cases. Note that for 1992 redistricted LA06 (2 Republican 'incumbents' neither of whom had previously represented the geographic area) variables 910-918 have been coded INAP 0. NOTE: VCF0910-918 have not been altered as a result of corrections to 1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902). Districts in which the respondent's U.S. House Representative was not running for re-election have been coded 0. For 1984: if R was in a district where no incumbent was running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0910-917 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no incumbent was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0918 has been coded 9, not 0. 1. Yes 5. No, no contact at all 9. NA; INAP, no post IW (1980,1984,1988,1992); Washington D.C.; IW (1984); short form IW (1992); question not used 0. No incumbent candidate running 1978: 782033 1980: 800918 1982: 820176,820213,820223 1984: 840936 1986: 860220 1988: 880715 1990: 900238 1992: 925502,925513 1994: 940502,940513 ==============================