CHAPTER 3

Understanding The Key Programs

Survey Said consists of (3) programs that work together to facilitate designing surveys, polling and analyzing responses and reporting the results. Significant changes in Survey Said have better defined the roles of the Survey Creator and the Survey Analyzer. Simply put the Creator is responsible for the questions, the Survey Analyzer is responsible for the analysis, and the Survey Respondent is responsible for entering answers in non Internet Web environments.

The Survey Creator is responsible for creating Libraries and Surveys, managing the questions in these files, and setting Library and Survey Options. The Survey Analyzer is responsible for analysis and managing respondents answers (the data). The Survey Respondent is responsible for presenting the questions and collecting the answers for a respondent in a PC Windows environment. In an Internet or Intranet environment a Web browser such as Netscape takes the place of the Survey Respondent when administering either Survey Said generated HTML or Java based surveys.

The Survey Creator

1. Creates and Manages Surveys
2. Prints the questions in Surveys
3. Merges questions into Surveys
4. Reorders Questions in Files
5. Configures Survey Options
6. Used to Define Skip Patterns
7. Used to define Grid Questions
8. Used to generate HTML surveys
9. Used to generate JAVA surveys
10. Distributes surveys to Network Entry Stations
11. Distributes surveys to Standalone Entry Stations

The Survey Analyzer

1. Graph, preview, and print survey analysis
2. Review and change respondents answers
3. Print out selected respondent’s Answers
4. Imports and Exports Respondents Answers
5. Validate and Void the respondents answers
6. Locate specific respondent’s survey answers
7. Reset - Initialize an entire survey database
8. Automatically Generates Complete Mail Diskettes
9. Consolidates Mail Diskette and Internet Surveys
10. Distributes surveys to Standalone Entry Stations

The Survey Respondent

1. Presents Surveys to Respondents Electronically
2. Provides Data Entry Screens for Paper Surveys