VAR CF0991 APPROVE RUNNING HOUSE INCUMBENT COLUMNS 672 - 672 NUMERIC MD EQ 0 OR GE 9 In general, do you approve or disapprove of the way <running U.S. House incumbent Representative> has been handling his/her job? ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. The 1982 dataset included 2 sets of approval 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) this variable has been coded INAP 0. If the U.S. House representative in R's district was NOT running for re-election (i.e., is 'retiring'), then this question does not apply. Running incumbent's name from election held during year of IW was given. For 1984: if R is 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 VCF0991 has been coded 9, not 0. 1. Approve 5. Disapprove 8. DK 9. NA; INAP, no post IW (1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996); abbrev. telephone IW (1984); short form (1992); question not used 0. No running incumbent (includes Washington D.C.) 1980: 972 1982: 212,249,266 1984: 967 1986: 353 1988: 789 1990: 58,404 1992: 5710 1994: 637 1996: 961123 1998: 980326 ==============================