VCF0902 Type of House Race

QUESTION:
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Type of House race

VALID_CODES:
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12.  Democratic incumbent running--Republican challenger
13.  Democratic incumbent--other challenger
14.  Democratic incumbent running--unopposed
19.  Democratic incumbent running--Republican challenger
       and others
21.  Republican incumbent running--Democratic challenger
23.  Republican incumbent--other challenger
24.  Republican incumbent running--unopposed
29.  Republican incumbent running--Democratic challenger
       and others
31.  Other incumbent running--Democratic challenger
32.  Other incumbent running--Republican challenger
34.  Other incumbent running--unopposed
35.  Other incumbent running--Democratic and Republican
       challengers
36.  Other incumbent running--Republican and other
       challengers
37.  Other incumbent running--Democratic and other
       challengers
39.  Other incumbent running -- Democratic, Republican,
       other challengers
40.  Democratic and Republican incumbents running--no
       other candidate (1982 only:  see note above)
45.  Two Republican incumbents running (1992 only: see
       note above)
49.  Democratic and Republican incumbents running--other
       candidate (1982 only:  see note above)
51.  No incumbent Repr. running--Democratic candidate
       unopposed
52.  No incumbent Repr. running--Republican candidate
       unopposed
53.  No incumbent Repr. running--other candidate unopposed
55.  No incumbent Repr. running--Democratic and Republican
       candidates
56.  No incumbent Repr. running--Republican and other
       candidates
57.  No incumbent Repr. running--Democratic and other
       candidates
59.  No incumbent Repr. running--Democratic and Republican
       and other candidates
83.  No identifiable incumbent, Democratic candidate in
       open race due to redistricting
84.  No identifiable incumbent, Republican candidate in
       open race due to redistricting
85.  No identifiable incumbent, Democratic and Republican
       candidates in open race due to redistricting 
89.  No identifiable incumbent, Democratic, Republican
       and other candidates in open race due to 
       redistricting

MISSING_CODES:
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99.  NA
00.  Washington D.C.; California (1974 only, due to
     redistricting type of race could not be determined);
     wrong district identified (2000); no post IW
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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GENERAL NOTE:  
This variable is available for 1970, 1974 and 1976 as well as 1978 and 
later.  See warning note below.  In some years this variable is not
available for no-post cases.
NES samples are not designed to be representative at the Congressional 
district level.  Samples include cases from only some U.S. 
Congressional districts; for most congressional districts in which 
interviewing actually takes place, only a small number of interviews 
are taken.
Codes 40 and 49 apply as a result of redistricting: for other 
Cumulative Data File variables referent to "the incumbent" and "the 
challenger" the incumbent who represented R's sampling location BEFORE 
redistricting has been considered R's 'incumbent' and the other 
candidate (incumbent previously not representing R's sample location) 
has been considered the 'challenger'; if two incumbents ran against 
each other due to redistricting but neither had previously represented 
R's location,  neither candidate has been treated as an 'incumbent'.
1970,1974,1976 WARNING NOTE:  
In 1970, 1974 and 1976, no type of race var was present in the original 
NES datasets.  Data for these years have been added to VCF0902 by 
implementing a case-by-case determination of type of race for every R's 
congressional district through consultation of reference materials.  
The resultant data in VCF0902 for these years have been checked 
somewhat, but perfect accuracy cannot be guaranteed due to the nature 
of attempting case-by-case coding.  The type of race established in 
VCF0902 (and data in VCF0904-905 by derivation) for 1970, 1974 and 1976 
should be used with caution and at the user's risk.
1978 NOTE:
1978 data in this variable do not exactly match the 1978 Study data:
several congressional districts in 1978 were not accurately coded for
for type of House race.  MS03 was coded as 14 in the original 1978 data 
but should have been coded 12 (24 cases);  NY19 was coded as 12 in the 
original 1978 data but should have been coded 14 (9 cases);  NY38 was 
coded as 21 but should have been coded 24 (14 cases).  In VCF0902 these 
cases have been corrected.  However, note that in other Cumulative Data 
File 900s-series congressional vars except for VCF0904, VCF0905 and
VCF1004-1014,  candidate-level data continue to accord with the 
original 1978 study designated type of race for MS03, NY19 and NY38.
1984 NOTE:
1 case in TX22 and 1 case in WA01 were mistakenly coded 65 in the 
Study dataset and have been corrected to 55 here. Also, 1 case in WI05 
was mistakenly coded 13 and has been corrected to 14 here.  1 case in 
OH08 and 1 case in WI09 were mistakenly coded 12 and have been 
corrected to 21 here.  Finally, 4 cases in CA38 were incorrectly coded 
(1 as 13, 3 as 21) and have been corrected to 12 here.  These changes 
have been reflected in VCF1004 and VCF1005.
1992 NOTE 1:
For panel cases, this provides the type of race for the 1992 
congressional district of R's original address (1990) rather than the 
address to which R may have moved by the time of the 1992 interview(s).
1992 NOTE 2:
Late in 1994, it was discovered that in 50 cases an incorrect CD number 
had been assigned.  These errors affect all questions related to House 
race which were administered according to assigned-CD candidate names.  
In the introduction to this codebook is a listing of case IDs with 
correct districts, however no data have been changed in this file as a 
result.  Users can delete these cases from affected vars if desired.
1994 NOTE:
Codes represent type of race in district of interview location for the 
current Study year.
1996 NOTE 1:
same as 1994.
1996 NOTE 2: 
14 Pre interviews were conducted before the status of the congressional 
race in R's district assumed its final form.  These cases are flagged 
in 1996 Study variable V960127, and the race type projected at the time 
the Pre interview was administered is documented in 1996 Study variable 
V960128. (In such cases Pre survey data are consistent with V960128.)
1998 NOTE:  
2 districts had the incorrect type of race identified, and the 1998 
instrument was administered according to the incorrect type of House 
race.  Cumulative Data File variables utilize 1998 data which have not 
had corrections made:  In 1998, cases in AL07 should have been type 
race 14 (instead of 24); cases in CA41 should have been type race 55 
(instead of 12).
2000 NOTE:  
3 cases were misidentified PA in the Preload but should have been NJ. 
These cases are coded 00.
2002 NOTE:
Code 55 includes 2 cases from LA05 where a Democratic and 2 Republican
candidates were running.
2004 NOTE:
The extent of the Texas redistricting prior to the 2004 election 
produced House races with incumbents running in areas where he or 
she had provided little or no prior representation, thus no Texas 
candidate has been identified as a true incumbent (running or 
retiring) for the new Texas districts (House type race 44-49).

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1978:  780004  
1980:  800740 
1982:  820006  
1984:  840059 
1986:  860043  
1988:  880050
1990:  900058  
1992:  923021 
1994:  940017  
1996:  960097 
1998:  980065  
2000:  000194
2002:  024500a
2004:  044502