VAR CF0015A ABBREV. IW - PRE

VAR CF0015A   ABBREV. IW - PRE                                                
              COLUMNS 83   - 83                                               
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 9

        ABBREVIATED INTERVIEW FORM - PRE                                      
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        VCF0015A and VCF0015B codes other than 0 indicate cases where the     
        interview is shortened or lacking specific questions due to           
        administrative problems or considerations (e.g. accomodation for mail 
        or telephone mode).                                                   
                                                                              
        This flagging does not include 'Form' desigN assignments(see VCF0012, 
        VCF0012A and VCF0012B).                                               
                                                                              
        1980: The abbreviated Pre interviews were administered as replacements
        for discovered 'fake' interviews.                                     
                                                                              
        1992 NOTE:  In addition to the 'long-form' or full questionnaires     
        designed for personal interviewing, short-form questionnaires for     
        telephone administration were prepared in both the pre and post waves 
        for panel cases of respondents who had since 1990 moved out of range  
        possible for personal interviews.  Please see the full 1992 NES       
        documentation for a complete description of study administration.     
        See also VCF0017 and note that, contrary to the intentions of the     
        study design, use of the short-form questionnaire was not limited to  
        telephone mode, nor was long-form use confined to personal mode       
        interviewing.  [Note also that in several cases the shorter interview 
        was administered to 'cross-section' respondents-- 4 cases pre, 4 cases
        post].                                                                
                                                                              
        1996 NOTE:  CAPI interviewing (Computer Assisted Personal             
        Interviewing) was introduced in 1996, and the Pre 'VQ file' or CAPI   
        application was revised several times while in the field.  Beginning  
        with the CAPI instrument having revision date 9/25/96 through all     
        subsequent versions, some questions (most of the items related to 1996
        candidate Ross Perot) were dropped from Pre interviewing. This        
        variable identifies interviews administered without these questions.  
                                                                              
        1980:  800048                                                         
            1. Abbreviated pre IW (44 CASES:  CA29,TX03)                      
            0. Pre IW is NOT abbreviated                                      
                                                                              
        1992:  923011                                                         
               SEE NOTE ABOVE.  The Ns below are unweighted.                  
             1. Short-form Pre (150 CASES)                                    
             2. Spanish Pre(22 CASES)                                         
                   [Note that the Spanish Pre questionnaire was a translation 
                   of the Pre short form questionnaire except for demographic 
                   sections, which were slightly more complete in the Spanish 
                   Pre form]                                                  
             0. Long-form Pre (2313 CASES)                                    
                                                                              
        1996:  960018                                                         
             1. VQ date 9/25/96 or later; Pre variables dropped (1074 cases)  
                                                                              
        all other years:                                                      
             9. Not applicable to this study                                  
                                                                              
                                                                              
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