Have you had any contact with, or learned anything about, your House incumbent?

Any contact with House incumbent · Asked in 9 waves, 1978–1994 · 14,018 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses

Codes that include 'no Pre/Post IW' were dropped for respondents without that interview. Dropped as not asked: 0 'No incumbent candidate running'; 9 'NA; Washington D.C.; abbreviated IW (1984); short form IW (1992)'. Codebook notes: GENERAL NOTE: Districts in which the respondent’s U.S. House Representative was not running for re-election have been coded 0. 1984 NOTE: If R was in a district where no incumbent was running BUT the interview administered was a telephone IW, then VCF0910-917 have been coded 9, not 0. If R was in a district where no incumbent was running BUT the interview administered was an abbreviated telephone IW, then VCF0918 has been coded 9, not 0.