VAR CF0961 R EVER CONTACT CONGRESSMAN

VAR CF0961    R EVER CONTACT CONGRESSMAN                                      
              COLUMNS 633  - 633                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9                                                 

        Have you (or anyone in your family living here) ever contacted        
        <retiring OR running U.S. House Representative> or anyone in his/her  
        office?                                                               
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        NOTE:  961-971 have not been altered as a result of corrections to    
        1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902).                 
                                                                              
        In 1990, for New Jersey congressional district 01, the U.S. Represent-
        ative was neither 'retiring' nor running at the time of the 1990      
        general elections.  The Representative from NJ01 had campaigned for   
        and been elected to another office in 1989, and the office of         
        Representative in NJ 01 was not (in effect) occupied until after the  
        1990 elections.                                                       
                                                                              
               1.   Yes                                                       
               5.   No                                                        
                                                                              
               9.   DK; NA; INAP, no post IW (1980); District of Columbia     
                    (1986); question not used                                 
               0.   No recent incumbent  (1990, NJ01:  10 cases)              
                                                                              
        1978:  780227       1980:  800959      1986:  860282                  
        1990:  900303                                                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
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