VAR CF0314 NUMBER OF LIKES - DEMOCRATIC PARTY
COLUMNS 242 - 242
NUMERIC
MD EQ 9
Is there anything in particular that you like about the Democratic
party? What is that? Anything else [you like about the Democratic
Party]?
SUMMARY: NUMBER OF LIKES -- DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.
Five possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets.
MD category 9 comprises cases of systematic question exclusion,
i.e., when a question was not present within a form (1972,1990,1996)
or within a wave (1952,1960), or if a question was omitted entirely
that year (1954,1962,1966, 1970,1974).
Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you
like about the Democratic party?" have been coded here as 0
mentions; Rs coded DK or NA in response to the same question have
also been coded here as 0 mentions. In addition, Rs who responded
"yes" to "Is there anything in particular that you like about the
Democratic party?" BUT who provided no mentions (DK or NA in first
mention) have been coded 0 here.
In 1996, the order in which the set of likes/dislikes questions was
administered for the 2 major parties was randomized ('likes' always
preceding dislikes).
0. Zero positive mentions (likes)
1. One positive mention (likes)
2. Two positive mentions (likes)
3. Three positive mentions (likes)
4. Four positive mentions (likes)
5. Five positive mentions (likes)
9. No pre IW (1952,1960); form II (1972); form B (1986); form A
(1990); questions not administered in assigned half-sample
[see VCF012A] (1996); question not asked (1954,1962,1966,
1970,1974 only)
1952: 18 1956: 15 1958: 15
1960: 20 1964: 21 1968: 28
1972: 31 1976: 3088-3092 1978: 91-95
1980: 173-177 1982: 74-78 1984: 267-271
1986: 73-77 1988: 183-187 1990: 74-79
1992: 3402-3406 1994: 132-136 1996: 960326-330
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