VAR CF9012 PARTY THAT WOULD HANDLE IMPORTNT PROBLEM

VAR CF9012    PARTY THAT WOULD HANDLE IMPORTNT PROBLEM                        
              COLUMNS 734  - 734                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9                                                 

        (IF R HAS MENTIONED A 'MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM' IN THE NATION:)        
        Which political party do you think would be most likely to get the    
        government to do a better job in dealing with this problem (1972: to  
        be helpful on this problem) --the Republicans, the Democrats, or      
        wouldn't there be much difference between them?                       
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        THISVAR IS A FOLLOWUP TO VCF0.                                        
                                                                              
        SEE VCF0875 for identification of 'most important problem' in the     
        country.                                                              
                                                                              
        For 1972, code 8 includes 11 cases where R's response was "other."    
                                                                              
        In presidential years, this was a post var.                           
                                                                              
               1.   DEMOCRATS                                                 
               3.   NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE                                       
               5.   REPUBLICANS                                               
               8.   DK; other (1972 only)                                     
                                                                              
               9.   NA; INAP, no post IW (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 
                   1996); form I.II,IV (1972); short form (1992); question not
                   administered in assigned half-sample [see VCF0012A] (1996);
                   question not used                                          
               0.   INAP, R has not identified any problem                    
                                                                              
        1972:  550     1976:  3692      1978:  317                            
        1980:  985     1982:  300       1984:  995                            
        1986:  308     1988:  819       1992:  5728                           
        1994:  707     1996:  961143    1998:  980348                         
                                                                              
                                                                              
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