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Appendix C
Codebook for the U.S. Senate Data

© The Authors, 1998; Last modified 15 August 1998
 
Variable  Label 
NAME MEMBER: NAME
STATE STATE
PARTY MEMBER: PARTY
YEARELEC MEMBER: YEAR ELECTED
YEARBORN MEMBER: YEAR BORN
GENDER MEMBER: GENDER
ETHNIC MEMBER: ETHNICITY
RELIGION MEMBER: RELIGION
COMCHAIR IS MEMBER STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIR
ACU96 MEMBER: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION RATING 1996
REGION STATE: REGION OF COUNTRY
POP90 STATE: POPULATION 1990
RURAL STATE: PERCENT RURAL
WHITE STATE: PERCENT WHITE
BLACK STATE: PERCENT AFRICAN AMERICAN
ASIAN STATE: PERCENT ASIAN AMERICAN
HISPANIC STATE: PERCENT HISPANIC/LATINO
MARRIED STATE: PERCENT MARRIED COUPLE FAMILIES
CHILDREN STATE: PERCENT MARRIED COUPLE FAMILIES W/ CHILDREN
COLLEGE STATE: PERCENT COLLEGE GRADS
INCOME STATE: PER CAPITA INCOME
CLINTON STATE: VOTE FOR CLINTON
DOLE STATE: VOTE FOR DOLE
OTHERP STATE: VOTE FOR OTHER PRES CANDIDATES
PCLINTON STATE: CLINTON % OF 2-PARTY VOTE

Sources: ACU96: American Conservative Union; all other variables: Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics (Washington, D.C.: National Journal, 1997).
 

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