A user has brought to our attention that data for the 11 items in the federal spending battery (V043164-V043174) are misaligned in the March 30, 2005 version and earlier.

Data for the first two questions is not usable as a result; data for the next nine questions can be salvaged by renaming the following variables as shown:

RENAME
V043164=V043166
V043165=V043167
V043166=V043168
V043167=V043169
V043168=V043170
V043169=V043171
V043170=V043172
V043171=V043173
V043172=V043174

We will be providing a new version of the file today to correct all 11 variables. If you are already making use of a past version of the file, you can correct 9 of the 11 variables using the above code.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused. Please address any questions by email to "anes@electionstudies.org". Thank you!