SurveyPro 5 Specifications
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- Questionnaires
- Document Design (Questionnaires and Reports)
- Web Surveys with NetCollect (included)
- Kiosk/LAN/Telephone Surveys with DirectCollect (included)
- Additional Data Entry Stations with KeyCollect (included)
- Database
- Analysis and Reporting
- User Interface
- Supported Languages
- System Requirements
Multimedia Survey Software (SurveyPro)
Back to top ^Questionnaires
- 2,000 questions per survey file
- 2,000 characters per question text (10,000 per written answer response)
- Add text or image tiles for additional information/instructions
- 32 pre-loaded scales including written answers, yes/no, excellence, agree/disagree (Likert scales), importance, Zip code, states, and e-mail address
- Up to 999 custom scales for ratings, numbers, currency, percents, dates, times, patterns, forced rank, and single or multi-answer checkboxes with optional Other blank
- Checkbox labels up to 200 characters per box and up to 250 boxes per scale
- Range limits for date/time and number scales
- International currency symbols
- Quick grid setup (matrix questions) for one or more scale columns, including tables for written or numeric answers
- Scannable bubbles, bubble grids, OCR write-in boxes, and barcodes
- Multiple questionnaires in multiple media or multiple versions in same media can feed directly into one survey database
- Mail merge into surveys
- Export questionnaire as text
- Edits automatically reflected in fully integrated database and reports
Document Design (Questionnaires and Reports)
- Presentation quality documents
- Drag-and-drop or cut/copy/paste editing in visual interface
- Automatic layout of entry scales with numerous appearance overrides
- Multi-column and/or facing page layouts
- Spell check with customizable dictionaries, including legal and medical
- 120 customizable text styles for headings, questions, scales, and captions
- Selective application of bold, italic, underline, color, size and typeface
- Inline and fixed graphics, including .GIF, .JPEG .TIF, .PCX, .BMP, TARGA, .DIB
- Graphic call-outs and decorations can be anchored to track automatic re-layout
- Portrait or landscape printing, including 11"x17" for booklets
- Draw lines and box graphics
- Multi-level numbering for questions and figures
- Easily add custom headers, footers, logos and section titles
- Documents fully translatable (ANSI character set)
- Insert page numbers, filenames, modified dates, and other variables in text
- 1,000 documents per survey file (Unique surveys and reports)
- 3,000 tiles per document (tile=question, figure, text block or graphic)
- Documents to 2000 pages
- Selectively lock questionnaire, report, or database editing with optional passwords
Web Surveys with NetCollect (Note: NetCollect is included in SurveyPro 5)
Web Questionnaire Design:
- No programming or web page design knowledge needed
- Questionnaire pages can be optimized to fit mobile smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops
- Surveys can be linked from your web site, social media site and invitation emails
- Match your branding with customizable screen colors and fonts
- Built in layouts for all login (password) types
- Multiple graphic types (.jpg, .gif, .bmp, .tif, .png)
- Customizable color banding on grids
- Fixed page width for consistent display on varied respondent screen sizes
- Themes for quick application of colors/text styles
- Quick preview of layouts in browser
- Headers & footers
- Progress bars with adjustable percentages (useful for surveys with a lot of skips)
Web Questionnaire Features:
- Skips and branching for single and multiple-answer questions
- Use any question from earlier/same page as skip/branch trigger
- Complex patterns of nested skips/branches
- Set separate skip destination for no answer, or require skip trigger question
- Skip/branch based on hidden fields (i.e. password or value piped from launch URL)
- Password protection – full set of login types: unique, global, multiple shared-use, and name/password combinations
- Dynamically generate unique password file – built on the fly as respondents log in
- Leave/Resume via bookmark, favorites, resume code, or cookie
- Back/Forth with saved data
- Data piping from outside database or .csv
- Piping checkbox labels or open-ended responses into later question text
- Piping/passing data via launch URL (i.e. password or customer ID)
- Randomized questions within a grid
- Randomized checkboxes within a scale
- Randomization occurs for each respondent, then stable during forward/back and pause/resume
- Multiple answer questions handled as one question, not as multiple independent items as in databases and web form design programs
- Required questions (Must Answers)
- Enforced scale patterns (i.e. social security numbers)
- Enforced scale rankings
- Open ended responses up to 10,000 characters
- Starting and ending handshakes – respondents can come from or be sent to another application (on completion) or website with data pass-through
- Surveys can be taken on virtually all browsers and devices, mobile or computer
Survey Administration and Data Handling:
- Start and stop surveys automatically at specified time or specified number of completions
- Instantly updated Online Executive Summary report
- Instantly updated Online Activity Log
- 24/7 access to data from secure control panel
- Includes FTP upload utility for publishing to the web
- Live, test, maintenance, and closed modes
- Preserves partial surveys for optional inclusion in analysis
- Script “throttling” to ensure extremely high volume surveys won’t slow down your web server
- ASP scripts and DLL installation required for full listed functionality. Limited Perl functionality also available.
- Does not require cookies or Java script, but will use if enabled
- Uses core HTML/CSS specification for maximum cross-browser compatibility
- Data archiving daily, weekly, or manual as needed
- Server side data check and/or data cleaning at import
- Host on your own server, QuestionWeb for self-service web survey hosting, or SurveyHost for full-service custom hosting.
NetCollect Server Application Programming Interface (API):
- While the options above permit a high degree of web survey customization and linking without any programming, the API lets developers design programs that interact directly with the NetCollect platform or connect the platform to server resources. Examples include special logins, multi-field skips, extra data validation or advanced SQL queries.
- 12 events during the processing of each survey page may be overridden in the custom VB Script module (requires own server configuration).
- Complete source code is supplied for the VB Script level of the ServerApp
- Published survey .asp may be edited for appearance or embedding code (full programming requires own server configuration; QuestionWeb accepts appearance and code edits that do not require system objects or calls)
Emailer:
- Send email invitations, reminders and thank you messages
- Merge respondent data into the email body or subject, such as their URL and login code
- One respondent database for all emails, mail merge, survey login control and on-line piping
- Data cleaning tools to quickly resolve duplicate, bounced or invalid email addresses or passwords
- HTML messages with text enhancements (fonts, bold, etc), plus an ASCII plain text backup
- Set scheduled start time, batch size and sending rate
- Configure multiple drops with messages tailored for particular respondent selections
- Sends the mail through your SMTP email server for best performance
Kiosk/LAN/Telephone Surveys with DirectCollect (Note: DirectCollect is included in SurveyPro 5)
- Interviewer can select from up to 8 surveys
- Preload survey answer(s) like name and address from database
- Changes to preloaded answers can be fed back to database
- Logs time and interviewer for each call and survey (.csv format)
- Visual Basic 6.0 source supplied for further customization
- Tracks successful completion, quit or timeout
- Skips & branching
- Enforcement of scale structure for rankings, patterns, ranges
- Distribution via CD, LAN, kiosk, or use with in-person interviewing
- 'Piping' answer to questionnaire text in following screens.
- Progress bar or thermometer options
- All screen elements and colors are customizable
- Wallpaper or watermark screen backgrounds
- Scale design optimized to either full screen or windowed
- Allow download of .exe from your website
- Automatic daily or weekly archiving of data files for import
- Batch import available for collection of files via email/CD
- Find respondent in database
- Option to restrict surveys to single use per respondent
- Any Windows environment for respondents: 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista/7/8/10.
Kiosk Mode
- Large buttons for touch screen entry to checkbox, rating and ranked scales
- Lock full screen with no system access (when CPU and keyboard hidden)
- Password access to administrative mode when locked
- Timeout for abandoned surveys with optional countdown warning
- Option to use laptop or desktop PC as Kiosk
Outbound Telephone Interviewing (TeleInterview):
- Call information randomly pulled from database, with priority to callbacks
- Call management: callbacks in 2 hours, tomorrow or at scheduled date/time, refused survey or update invalid number
- Optional autodial (using Windows autodial)
- Targeted Respondent Interview (FindInterview): Form search and review, restricted to logged-on interviewer
Additional Data Entry Stations with KeyCollect (Note: KeyCollect is included in SurveyPro 5)
- Unlimited number of users – free utility
- Spell check
- Keyed import for record merging with full SurveyPro database
- Jump-to form from answer list
- Click or 1-key for rapid entry
- Dynamically creates list of previously used open-ended answers
- Password protection
- Enforced scale patterns (i.e. social security numbers)
- Enforced scale rankings and ranges
- Verification by second entry pass plus guided discrepancy resolution
- Screening of duplicate records
- Mass-replacement of answers
- Automated data cleaning
- Data entry done from locked template, protecting original survey file and other data
Database
- Unlimited database size up to hard disk capacity
- Internal data structures optimized for rapid analysis, quick lookups, and small file size
- Accepts data from web, kiosk, scanned, or paper surveys (manual entry)
- Entry screen automatically created as questionnaire is built
- Manual data entry optimized for speed using keyboard or mouse
- Shows previous short written answers for easy entry (just click!)
- Specify "must answer" fields
- Handles multiple answers with other blanks as one question
- Forms automatically stamped for unique form ID, form source, date and time
- Jump to form by number, answer, or selection filter
- Mass delete forms or mass replace answers
- "Clean-up Duplicates" mode
- Data cleaning tools for written answers including spell check
- Spell check written answers
- Cut/copy/paste answers via clipboard, or from previous form
- Protect data in previous session's forms, from another clerk, etc.
- Import comma-delimited (CSV) ASCII, MS Access (MDB), SQL records, Collect Series, and STL files as new forms or updates to existing forms
- Export comma-delimited (CSV) ASCII, MS Access (MDB), SQL records, and STL, with control of forms and fields
- Save multiple import/export field maps and settings
- Import data cleaning utility for passwords, answer consistency, pattern matching, etc.
- Changes to data are immediately reflected in reports
Analysis and Reporting
- Reports are multi-figure documents with captions, subheads, numbering, footers, etc.
- 3000 figures per survey file
- 2000 characters per figure caption
- Automatic Executive Summary and Data Table reports
- Comments with paragraph formatting can be mixed with figures
- Figure types include text summary, tables, scatter plots, line graphs, table+bar, and 2D or 3D bar graphs, pie charts, and stacked bars
- Descriptive statistics: counts, %, cumulative %, top/bottom box %, mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum, standard deviation
- Inferential statistics: standard error of mean, confidence interval on frequencies, Chi square for crosstab significance
- Only statistics appropriate to selected question(s) data type appear in dialogs – no need to be a statistician to only present statistically legal analysis
- Control over how missing or N/A answers are counted
- Automatic postcoding of written answers as if they were checkboxes
- Cross-tabs can be used on any figure, including written answer text
- Reusable banners of filters and 2D and 3D cross-tabs, with detailed labels and up to 500 columns (banner points)
- Group questions for comparisons by means or other summary statistics
- Form selection filters to analyze subsets by answers to one or more questions, source questionnaire, data entry clerk, entry time and/or form number
- Sort tables or graphs by answer frequency, mean or median
- Short written answers and Other answers tabulated for up to 64,000 unique responses
- Large figures split across pages
- Rescales to consolidate checkboxes, count keywords, prefixes or suffixes on written answers, count numbers, date or times into ranges, combine or re-label rating levels
- Whole report can be printed for subset of respondents and/or repeated by question or cross-tab banner – like a crosstab at the report level
- Set answer statistical values for scoring or weighting
- Sample weighting up to 3 levels for sampling bias corrections
- Print questionnaires with each respondent's answers or in answer tables
- Export raw data, individual figures, or entire formatted report into other programs
- Publish any report as a web page that can be posted on your server
User Interface
- Changes ripple through questionnaire-database-reports, with extensive crosschecking to ensure data integrity
- Dynamic dialogs show only relevant options for current setup, eg means only allowed for ordered scales
- Tabs for quick access to open questionnaire or report documents
- Outline tree view of document elements: questions, graphs, text styles, scales, etc.
- File history tracking of imports, web publishing and other events
- SurveyPro file password protection
- 5-level undo or redo
Supported Languages
SurveyPro supports development of surveys in the following languages:
- Albanian
- Basque
- Catalan
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Haitian
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Javanese
- Latin
- Malay
- Norwegian (Bokmål)
- Norwegian (Nynorsk)
- Portuguese
- Sicilian
- Spanish
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Welsh
Additional language surveys can be created by SurveyHost. Please contact sales@apian.com for more information.
Back to top ^System Requirements
SurveyPro 5 System Requirements
- Windows 98, NT4, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 on 32-bit or 64-bit computers
- Any minimum processor and RAM that will run Windows will run SurveyPro
- Hard disk with 120MB available hard disk space
- Minimum 600x800 screen resolution
Web Server Requirements (for online surveys)
- Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 or later
- Server Application uses ASP Classic scripts and DLLs – in general this will mean using an in-house or cloud web server under your organization's sole control (not an ISP who shares many sites on one server)
- Alternatively our QuestionWeb secure cloud service can provide the hosting for you.
Scanning Survey Requirements (for scanning paper surveys)
- Purchase SurveyPro + OMR Software + Scanner
- OMR form software converts bubbles to data, and exports data as CSV, MDB, or SQL for import to SurveyPro. Generally the OCR software packaged with scanner purchase will not perform this function. OMR software can be Remark (sold by Apian) or other packages
- Scanner feeds images of completed surveys to OMR software, generally TWAIN driver required. List of Remark-supported scanners.
Respondent EMailer Requirements
- Windows 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 on 32-bit or 64-bit computers
- SMTP email server with full Administrative access/permissions (POP3 and other setups are not supported)
- Most SMTP login security methods supported
