VAR CF0928 R CONTACT FROM HOUSE DEM CANDIDATE COLUMNS 596 - 596 NUMERIC MD EQ 0 OR GE 9 Think of <Democratic candidate> [who has been the U.S. Representative from this district/ 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? CONTACT WITH DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. For 1984: if R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0928-935 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0936 has been coded 9, not 0. In one district in 1992, two Republican 'incumbents' ran against each other (LA06) due to redistricting, but neither candidate had previously represented the geographic area corresponding to the reconfigured district. As a result, this race has been treated as an open race. In House-level thermometers, likes/dislikes, contact etc., one Republican candidate (always the same one) has been folded into the data normally pertaining to the Democratic candidate. VCF0902 (type of race) code 45 can be used to filter out such 1992 Republican cases. Responses referring to an independent or 'other' candidate are not recorded here for districts having only one major party candidate (e.g. type race 23 in VCF0902). NOTE: 928-936 have not been altered as a result of corrections to 1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902). For 1986: in the original NES dataset, 8 major party challengers to the running U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from challenger data (SEE VCF0919). Two of the omitted challengers were Democratic: contact data for them appear in code 9 (NA) in VCF0928- 936,948. 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. No Democratic candidate running 1978: 782013 1980: 800918,800929,800939 1982: 820176,820186,820213,820267 1984: 840936,840946,840968 1986: 860220,860231,860241 1988: 880715,880726,880736 1990: 900238,900249,900259 1992: 925502 1994: 940502 ==============================