The Professional Edition adds to the Basic Edition features needed to handle any type of question. It also adds sophisticated logic to the data entry or interviewing process.

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 positive and negative 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, euro or other numeric units.

Open questions with 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 demographic variables. 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.

Instructional questions

Questions, which does not require answers, but gives different instructions to your respondents. Instructional questions are ideal if you want to combine training materials with questionnaires and by that create an effective distance-learning concept.

Interviewing Logic

• Create automatic skip patterns.
• Randomise question and answer choice order.
• Show images.
• Play sound (if you have the Voice Capture Module).
• Show previous answers in the current question.
• Do computer-aided interviews (CATI, CAPI).

The Interview Style Data Entry feature that comes with the Basic Edition of The Survey System lacks some features needed for sophisticated telephone interviewing. This module adds those features. These include automatic question skipping (e.g., if "No" to this question, skip to Question X), consistency checking, randomisation of the order in which a group of questions is asked, randomisation of the order in which answer choices are presented, checking that the sum of several answers equals a specified number, and more.

Using The Survey System for interviewing is one of the most efficient ways to collect and process questionnaire data, where you do not have to do things twice. The same instructions you create for questions in an interview also produce 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.

Special Offer

If you buy a Professional Edition for 2 or more analysts we include file sharing and network support free of charge.