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VCF0937 Did R Have Contact with House Republican Candidate

QUESTION:
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Think of [Republican candidate] [who has been the U.S. Representative
from this district/ who ran for the U.S. House of Representatives from
this district].
Have you come into contact with or learned anything about (him/her)
through any of these ways?

VALID_CODES:
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1.   Yes
5.   No

MISSING_CODES:
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9.   NA; no Post IW; Washington D.C.; telephone IW
     (1984); short form IW (1992)
0.   No Republican candidate running
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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1984 NOTE:
If R was in a district where no Republican candidate was running BUT 
the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0928-935 have 
been coded 9, not 0.  If R was in a district where no Republican 
candidate was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated 
telephone IW, then VCF0936 has been coded 9, not 0.
1986 NOTE:
In the 1986 Study dataset, 8 major party challengers to the running 
U.S. House incumbent were mistakenly excluded from challenger data (SEE 
VCF0919).  Six of the omitted challengers were Republican:  contact 
data for them appear in code 9 (NA) in VCF0928- VCF0936 and VCF0948.

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1978:  782023
1980:  800918,800929,800949
1982:  820176,820186,820223,820277  
1984:  840936,840946,840978
1986:  860220,860231,860251  
1988:  880715,880726,880746
1990:  900238,900249,900269  
1992:  925513
1994:  940513


Walter Mebane 2005-11-03