VAR CF0997 NUMBER OF LIKES - HOUSE CHALLENGER COLUMNS 680 - 680 NUMERIC MD EQ 6 OR GE 7 Is there anything in particular that you liked about <challenger to U.S. House incumbent candidate> What is that? Anything else? SUMMARY: NUMBER OF LIKES -- CHALLENGER TO INCUMBENT HOUSECANDIDATE ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. FOR ALL YEARS, THIS VAR HAS BEEN BUILT FROM VCF0980,VCF0984. 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) this variable has been coded INAP 8. NOTE: VCF0997-1000 have not been altered as a result of corrections to 1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902). Four possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets except 1988 and later, which coded 5. 0. Zero positive mentions (likes) 1. One positive mention (likes) 2. Two positive mentions (likes) 3. Three positive mentions (likes) 4. Four or more positive mentions (likes) 6. "I don't know anything about this candidate" (VOLUNTEERED) 7. DK if liked anything about candidate; liked something about candidate but DK what 8. No running incumbent candidate in R's district (includes Washington D.C.) or incumbent not challenged 9. NA if liked anything about candidate; liked 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: 4,160-164,170-174 1980: 740,892-896,902-906 1982: 6,148-152,158-162 1984: 59,913-927 1986: 43,184-188,194-198 1988: 674-679,686-691 1990: 198-203,210-215 1992: 5401-5406,5413-5418 1994: 401-406,413-418 1996: 961044-961049,961056-961061 1998: 980275-980280,980287-980292 ==============================