VAR CF0981 NUMBER OF DISLIKES -HOUSE DEM CAND

VAR CF0981    NUMBER OF DISLIKES -HOUSE DEM CAND                              
              COLUMNS 653  - 653                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 6 OR GE 7                                                 

        Is/Was there anything in particular that you didn't like about <U.S.  
        House Democratic candidate>? What is/was that? Anything else?         
                                                                              
        SUMMARY:  NUMBER OF DISLIKES -- DEMOCRATIC HOUSE CANDIDATE            
        -------------------------------------------------------------------   
                                                                              
        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        Democratic House candidate's name from election held during year of IW
        was given.                                                            
                                                                              
        Four possible mentions were coded in all original NES datasets except 
        1988 and later, which coded 5.                                        
                                                                              
        If R's response to "Is there anything in particular that you liked    
        about the US House Democratic candidate" was "I don't know anything   
        about this candidate," then this question was not asked and VCF0981   
        has been coded 6.                                                     
                                                                              
        Rs who responded "no" to "Is there anything in particular that you    
        didn't like about the US House Democratic candidate?" have been coded 
        here as 0 mentions.  "DK" responses to this question and "I don't know
        anything about this candidate" responses have been maintained as MD   
        codes, unlike VCF0401-402 and VCF0405-406, because of the very high   
        numbers of respondents falling into these categories [for consistency,
        NA responses to this question has also been retained as MD].  In      
        addition, if R responded "yes" to "Is there anything in particular    
        that you disliked about the US House Democratic candidate" but R      
        provided no mentions (DK or NA in first mention), then s/he has been  
        coded in the corresponding MD category in VCF0981.                    
                                                                              
        In one district in 1992, two Republican 'incumbents' ran against each 
        other (LA06) due to redistricting, but neither candidate had          
        previously represented the geographic area corresponding to the       
        reconfigured district.  As a result, this race has been treated as    
        an open race.  In House-level thermometers, likes/dislikes, contact   
        etc., one Republican candidate (always the same one) has been folded  
        into the data normally pertaining to the Democratic candidate. VCF0902
        (type of race) code 45 can be used to filter out such 1992 Republican 
        cases.                                                                
                                                                              
        For 1984 and 1992:  if R was in a district where no Democratic        
        candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an           
        abbreviated telephone interview (1984) or a short form interview      
        (1992), then VCF0981 has been coded 9, not 8.                         
                                                                              
        Responses referring to an independent or "other" candidate are not    
        recorded here for districts having only one major party candidate     
        (e.g. type race 23 in VCF0902).                                       
                                                                              
        NOTE:  VCF0980-983 have not been altered as a result of corrections to
        1978 data for type of House race (see notes VCF0902).                 
                                                                              
        1998 note:  1 case (0062) that was coded "yes" in the 1998 study data 
        as response whether there was anything R liked about the Democratic   
        House candidate should have been coded "I don't know anything about   
        this candidate" but has been correctly categorized in variables       
        VCF0980 and VCF0981.                                                  
                                                                              
        In 1996 and 1998, randomization occurred for the order in which the   
        Democratic and Republican House candidate names were administered for 
        the set of 'likes/dislikes' questions; note that for each candidate   
        'likes' preceded 'dislikes,' and both 'likes' and 'dislikes' questions
        were administered for one candidate before questions concerning the   
        next candidate were begun.                                            
                                                                              
            0.   Zero negative mentions (dislikes)                            
            1.   One negative mention (dislikes)                              
            2.   Two negative  mentions (dislikes)                            
            3.   Three negative mentions (dislikes)                           
            4.   Four or more negative mentions (dislikes)                    
                                                                              
            6.   "I don't know anything about this candidate" (VOLUNTEERED)   
            7.   DK if disliked anything about candidate; disliked something  
                 about candidate but DK what                                  
            8.   No Democratic candidate in R's district (includes Washington 
                 D.C.)                                                        
            9.   NA if disliked anything about candidate; disliked something  
                 about candidate but NA what; INAP, no post IW (1980, 1984,   
                 1988, 1992, 1996); abbrev. telephone IW (1984); short form   
                 (1992); question not used                                    
                                                                              
        1978:  165-169         1980:  897-901      1982:  153-157             
        1984:  913-917         1986:  189-193      1988:  680-685             
        1990:  204-209         1992:  5407-5412    1994:  407-412             
        1996:  961050-961055                       1998:  980281-980286       
                                                                              
                                                                              
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