VCF9152 Vote Valid: Attempted Validation of Registration

QUESTION:
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VOTE VALIDATION STUDY:

VALID_CODES:
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1.  Yes, attempted
2.  No: R says is not registered (1984-1990);
        R says not required/DK?NA if registered
        (1984-1990)
3.  No: No respondent named and/or insufficient address
        (all years); registerd out of area (except
        1984,1990); Washington DC [Note: code 2 has
        priority]
4.  No: Same-day registration (1964,1980)
5.  No: Records not sent out due to: Office error (1980);
        No Post IW (1964,some cases in 1976)
7.  No: Office refuses all access to registration records

MISSING_CODES:
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0.  1976 non-Panel Rs
Inap. question not used

NOTES:
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See note VCF9149.
GENERAL NOTE:
Code 1:   For 1984 and 1990, code 1 includes telephone attempts at
validation of cases registered outside of sample  area (998 in
VCF9149). Similar attempts were not made in  other years. For 1980, 
code 1 includes 31 cases (code 9 in original var 1207) where respondent 
was discovered to be registered at a different address: note, however, 
that for these cases no effort was subsequently made to
Code 2:   Applies to 1984-1990 only.  In 1984-1990, vote validation
was intended for Rs who: 1) reported that they voted;  or 2) reported 
that they didn't vote but were registered; or 3) had no post IW.
That is, in years 1984-1990, POST RS WHO DID NOT REPORT THAT THEY WERE
REGISTERED WERE NOT VALIDATED.
Codes 3-7: All years:  complications in the ability to carry out
registration records-checks prevented the validation of registration
status for some Rs for whom validation was originally intended.
Validation was intended in 1984-90 for all Rs except nonvoters who
didn't report being  registered.  Prior to 1984, vote validation was
intended for all ANES respondents [exception:  alidation was not
intended for 1964 no-posts (code 5).  Validation was not intended for
1976 no-posts, however ANES was able to carry out validation for some
1976 no-posts.]
Code 4:  although registration status was not checked (assumed
unnecessary), voting records WERE checked (for 1980, 1 in VCF9153).
1986 NOTE:
4 cases for which validation was not attempted (due to insufficient 
address, no name, or registered out of area) were mistakenly coded 
"attempted."  They are corrected in VCF9152 (code 3) and in VCF9154-
9155 (code 0).
1976 NOTE:
Only 1976 time-series respondents who also participated in the 1972-
1974-1976 panel study (ICPSR 7607) were included in 1976 vote
validation.  In vars 9151,9152,9154,9155, 1976 prepost Rs who did not 
also participate in the panel study are INAP.

WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a

TYPE:
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Numeric  Dec 0

SOURCE_VARS:
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1964:  640423,640424  
1976:  765002  
1978:  781400
1980:  801207  
1984:  841132
1986:  860798
1988:  881143
1990:  902752