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 SAG IN RECOVERED LEGISLATOR COORDINATES
    110729142 5 0RHODE I 10001REED         294  20   6 136 -1.000
    11071303952 0MARYLAN 10001SARBANES     304  11   5 137 -1.000
    11071501171 0CALIFOR 10001BOXER        281  22   8 131 -1.000
    11071410547 0NORTH C 20001HELMS        115  15  10 188  0.931
    11071462849 0TEXAS   20001GRAMM, PHIL  171  24  13 233  0.984
    11071542961 0ARIZONA 20001KYL          171  33   9 242  1.000

This lists those legislators who have been constrained to be at the ends of the dimension.

The first column is equal to 0 if the legislator has been constrained, and equal to 1 if not constrained.

The next 36 columns (JNE=36 in the FORTRAN code) are from the roll call matrix itself (see the format statement in the NOMSTART.DAT file). This is user determined and is set in NOMSTART.DAT. In this application to U.S. Senate roll call data,

the column in red is the Congress number
the column in blue is the ICPSR ID Number as corrected by Howard Rosenthal and myself
the column in Magenta is the ICPSR State Code
the column of zeroes will show the two digit Congressional District Number for House Roll Call Matrices
the column in Coral is the first seven letters of the State Name
the column in Midnightblue is the party code -- 100 for Democrats, 200 for Republicans. See the Party Codes Page for a complete listing
The column in Firebrick are the ICPSR Occupancy and Election Codes
Name of Senator
The cross classification is in Turquoise. The second and third columns are classification errors -- predicted yes voted no and predicted no voted yes. So for Reed,

correct classification = (294+136-20-6)/(294+136+20+6) = 94.3%.
The last column is the coordinate on the current dimension. For 2nd and higher dimensions, these coordinates will not range from -1 to +1 because the legislators are constrained to lie within the unit hypersphere.