DW-NOMINATE Output by Rohde Codes

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DW-NOMINATE OUTPUT BY ROHDE CODES

25 October 2009

The following files show the DW-NOMINATE legislator coordinates for various categories of roll calls using the Rohde codes. These are "raw" output files from DW-NOMINATE. The format is:

 1.  Congress Number
 2.  ICPSR ID Number:  5 digit code assigned by the ICPSR as 
                       corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself.
 3.  State Code:  2 digit ICPSR State Code.
 4.  Congressional District Number (0 if Senate)
 5.  State Name
 6.  Party Code:  100 = Dem., 200 = Repub. (See PARTY3.DAT)
 7.  Name
 8.  1st Dimension Coordinate
 9.  2nd Dimension Coordinate
10.  1st Dimension Conditional Standard Error
11.  2nd Dimension Conditional Standard Error
12.  1st Dimension Conditional Variance
13.  2nd Dimension Conditional Variance
14.  Log-Likelihood 
15.  Log-Likelihood (check)
16.  Number of Votes
17.  Number of Votes (check)
18.  Number of Classification Errors
19.  Number of Classification Errors (check)
20.  Geometric Mean Probability
21.  Geometric Mean Probability (check)