VAR CF0981 NUMBER OF DISLIKES -HOUSE DEM CAND COLUMNS 653 - 653 NUMERIC MD EQ 6 OR GE 7 Is/Was there anything in particular that you didn't like about <U.S. House Democratic candidate>? What is/was that? Anything else? SUMMARY: NUMBER OF DISLIKES -- DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. Democratic House candidate's name from election held during year of IW was given. Four possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets except 1988 and later, which coded 5. If R's response to "Is there anything in particular that you liked about the US House Democratic candidate" was "I don't know anything about this candidate," then this question was not asked and VCF0981 has been coded 6. Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you didn't like about the US House Democratic candidate?" have been coded here as 0 mentions. "DK" responses to this question and "I don't know anything about this candidate" responses have been maintained as MD codes, unlike VCF0401-402 and VCF0405-406, because of the very high numbers of respondents falling into these categories [for consistency, NA responses to this question has also been retained as MD]. In addition, if R responded "yes" to "Is there anything in particular that you disliked about the US House Democratic candidate" but R provided no mentions (DK or NA in first mention), then s/he has been coded in the corresponding MD category in VCF0981. 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. For 1984 and 1992: if R was in a district where no Democratic candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone interview (1984) or a short form interview (1992), then VCF0981 has been coded 9, not 8. 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: VCF0980-983 have not been altered as a result of corrections to 1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902). 1998 note: 1 case (0062) that was coded "yes" in the 1998 study data as response whether there was anything R liked about the Democratic House candidate should have been coded "I don't know anything about this candidate" but has been correctly categorized in variables VCF0980 and VCF0981. In 1996 and 1998, randomization occurred for the order in which the Democratic and Republican House candidate names were administered for the set of 'likes/dislikes' questions; note that for each candidate 'likes' preceded 'dislikes,' and both 'likes' and 'dislikes' questions were administered for one candidate before questions concerning the next candidate were begun. 0. Zero negative mentions (dislikes) 1. One negative mention (dislikes) 2. Two negative mentions (dislikes) 3. Three negative mentions (dislikes) 4. Four or more negative mentions (dislikes) 6. "I don't know anything about this candidate" (VOLUNTEERED) 7. DK if disliked anything about candidate; disliked something about candidate but DK what 8. No Democratic candidate in R's district (includes Washington D.C.) 9. NA if disliked anything about candidate; disliked something about candidate but NA what; INAP, no post IW (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996); abbrev. telephone IW (1984); short form (1992); question not used 1978: 165-169 1980: 897-901 1982: 153-157 1984: 913-917 1986: 189-193 1988: 680-685 1990: 204-209 1992: 5407-5412 1994: 407-412 1996: 961050-961055 1998: 980281-980286 ==============================