VAR CF0919 R CONTACT WITH HOUSE CHALLENGER COLUMNS 587 - 587 NUMERIC MD EQ 0 OR GE 9 How about <challenging candidate> who also ran for has been the U.S. House of Representative from this district. Have you come into contact with or learned anything about (him/her) through any of these ways? 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 919-927 have been coded INAP 0. NOTE: 919-927 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 or where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed by a non-major party challenger) BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0919-926 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no incumbent was running or where the incumbent was unopposed (or opposed by a non-major party challenger) BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0927 has been coded 9, not 0. For 1986: in the original NES dataset, 8 major party challengers to the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from challenger data (6 Republican challengers, 2 Democratic challengers). Contact data for these individuals have been coded 9 (NA) in VCF0919-927 and VCF0947. 1. Yes 5. No, no contact at all 9. NA; INAP, no post IW (1980,1984,1988,1992); Washington D.C.; telephone IW (1984); short form IW (1992); question not used 0. Incumbent candidate unopposed or not running; challenger not in major party 1978: 782043 1980: 800929 1982: 820186,820213,820223 1984: 840946 1986: 860231 1988: 880726 1990: 900249 1992: 925502,925513 1994: 940502,940513 ==============================