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VCF0612 Is Voting the Only Way to Have a Say in Government

QUESTION:
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'Voting is the only way that people like me can have any (1956-1964:
a) say about how the government runs things.'

VALID_CODES:
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1.  Agree
2.  Disagree
9.  DK; depends; not sure; can't say; refused to say;
    neither agree nor disagree (1988)

MISSING_CODES:
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0.  NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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See introductory text VCF0609.
GENERAL NOTE:
The order in which questions VCF0609-VCF0618 appeared may have varied.
1966 NOTE:
This question was asked as a Likert Scale (i.e., strongly agree/ agree/ 
disagree/ strongly disagree), collapsed here.

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1952:  520120 
1956:  560109 
1960:  600108 
1964:  640175  
1966:  660116 
1968:  680518
1970:  700145(type 0)  
1972:  720270 
1974:  742223 
1976:  763816 
1978:  780352 
1980:  801031


Walter Mebane 2005-11-03