Professional and Enterprise Editions - The Survey System
The Survey System's Professional Edition can handle any type of question. It also adds sophisticated logic to the data entry or interviewing process. The Enterprise Edition is for two or more analysts. It has all the features of the Professional Edition, plus file sharing over a network.
More Answer Choices
For multiple choice questions, the Professional Edition:
- Allows up to 500 answer choices per multiple choice question.
- Groups answers into Categories and Sub-categories.
Category Rows can reflect either Totals or Net Totals of the individual answers. In other words, an individual who chooses two answers in the same category can be counted either as two responses or as one person.
Large Numbers
For fill-in-the-blank questions, the Professional Edition:
- Handles numbers up to 15 digits long.
- Gives Means, Totals, Standard Deviations, Standard Errors, t-tests, etc.
- Shows up to 100 variables per table.
These tables are ideal for questions where the answers are exact values, such as miles, tons, acres, dollars or other numeric units. The letters below the numbers in the following example show which groups of people gave answers that were significantly different from each other.
Text Answers
The Professional Edition:
- Records text answers.
- Classifies answers based on their content.
- Converts text answers to numeric data.
- Produces text reports classified by demographics and/or content.
- Performs word frequency counts and basic content analysis.
Attractive reports can group the answers based on their content and/or by demographics. You can code text answers by searching them for key words or phrases. Where keyword coding is inappropriate, it can show each answer on the screen above a code sheet and let you pick the most appropriate codes. You can use the codes to group similar answers together in reports and as standard multiple choice data.
Interviewing Logic
- Creates automatic skip patterns (branching).
- Randomizes question and answer choice order.
- Shows images and video.
- Shows previous answers in the current question (piping).
- Performs calculations.
- Prevents duplicate answers on ranking questions.
- Checks that answers total to a desired number (constant sum).
- Prevents choices such as "none" from being chosen in combination with another answer.
- Checks consistency of answers.
The Interview Style Data Entry feature that comes with the Basic Edition of The Survey System lacks some features needed for sophisticated telephone interviewing. The Professional Edition adds those features. These features include:
- Automatic question skipping (e.g., if "No" to this question, skip to Question X)
- Consistency checking
- Randomization of the order in which a group of questions is asked
- Randomization of the order in which answer choices are presented
- Checking that the sum of several answers equals a specified number, and more
The Survey System Professional Edition for Interviewing Efficiency
Using The Survey System's Professional Edition for interviewing is one of the most efficient ways to collect and process questionnaire data. You do not have to do things twice as you do with other systems. The same instructions you create for questions in an interview also produces tables and graphics in a report. Since the data is saved direct to disk there is no need to complete a paper questionnaire and then enter it manually.
