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VAR CF0612 IS VOTING THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A SAY

VAR CF0612    IS VOTING THE ONLY WAY TO HAVE A SAY                            
              COLUMNS 430  - 430                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 9                                                 

        'Voting is the only way that people like me can have any (1956-1964:  
        a) say about how the government runs things.'                         
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        SEE INTRODUCTORY TEXT OF VCF0609.                                     
                                                                              
        The order in which questions VCF0609-VCF0618 appear may vary from     
        year to year.                                                         
                                                                              
        In 1966 this question was asked as a Likert Scale (i.e., strongly     
        agree/ agree/ disagree/ strongly disagree) which was collapsed.       
                                                                              
               1.  Agree                                                      
               2.  Disagree                                                   
                                                                              
               9.  DK; depends; not sure; can't say; refused to say; neither  
                      agree nor disagree (1988)                               
               0.  NA; INAP, no pre IW (1952,1960); no post IW                
                      (1968,1976,1980); question not used                     
                                                                              
        1952:  120         1956:  109   1960:  108                            
        1964:  175         1966:  116   1968:  518                            
        1970:  145(type 0) 1972:  270   1974:  2223                           
        1976:  3816        1978:  352   1980:  1031                           
                                                                              
                                                                              
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Walter Mebane
Mon Nov 12 02:55:58 EST 2001