VAR CF0624 DO ELECTIONS MAKE GOVT PAY ATTENTION
COLUMNS 442 - 442
NUMERIC
MD EQ 0
(And) How much do you feel that having elections makes the government
pay attention to what the people think, a good deal, some or not much?
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USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B.
Weight variable VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B must be used if
distributions including 1970 data are desired: see VCF0010.
Note that use of VCF0010/VCF0010A/VCF0010B as a weight reduces the
1970 total N for this variable: form 2 whites who should appear as
code 0 INAP cases are excluded from the 1970 total N.
Except for 1976 and 1980, this question was preceded by the
introduction appearing for VCF0604. The order of Study year questions
corresponding to Cumultive File vars VCF0605-VCF0608,VCF0622-VCF0625
may have varied from year to year.
In 1988, the placement of this variable within Post question order
varied according to questionnaire 'Form' (see VCF0012).
1. Not much
2. Some
3. A good deal
9. DK; other; depends; can't say
0. NA; INAP, no post IW (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1988,
1992, 1996); form III, IV (1972); question not used
1964: 392 1966: 177 1968: 492
1970: 157(type 1) 1972: 577 1974: 2236
1976: 3743 1978: 418 1980: 890
1984: 309 1988: 959 1992: 6124
1996: 961255 1998: 980522
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