SURE makes possible creation of templates and data input for any forms and questionnaires. The information scope (number of questionnaires) is limited only by the available resources of one's PC.
SURE provides convenient tools for data editing and takes advantages of powerful navigating through the questionnaire arrays.
SURE is equipped with means of a syntactical and logical control of questionnaires.
SURE allows simultaneous questionnaire input by several operators.
SUREprovides a possibility of questionnaire export into SPSS, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel.
SURE operates in the unified Microsoft Windows environment.
SURE functions related to operation with templates.
For operation with a questionnaire it is necessary, first of all, to describe its structure, i.e. to create a template of the given questionnaire. For operation with questionnaire templates, the software has a special mode, which is described in more detail in chapter "User's guide".
The main functions related to operation with templates are: creation, editing, export and import.
For creation or editing of a template, the respective questionnaire characteristic (question type) is set, as well as a block of parameters of the given characteristic, depending on a type of the answer to the given question.
The following types of characteristics are supported:
- Radio
- Check
- Yes/No
- Yes/No/I don't know
- Any number
- Integer number
- Text
- Classifier
Depending on a type of the characteristic, such parameters as "Other options", "Comments", "Navigating" and "Key field" can be set.
For all characteristics, "No Response" parameter can be selected.
SURE functions related to operation with questionnaires.
The main functions related to operation with questionnaires are:
- Input and editing of questionnaires.
- Viewing information of questionnaires and their characteristics without a possibility of editing.
- Information retrieval; for example, a possibility to find a questionnaire by the household number.
- Convenient navigating through questionnaires and characteristics. Transition ("skip") patterns for the particular questionnaires and characteristics are stipulated.
- Support of automatic navigating through a questionnaire depending on the answer of the respondent. For example, if the person answered some questions positively, he/she should proceed to other block of questions, and thus part of questions should be skipped by the interviewer. The program in this case immediately passes to the appropriate block. In the field of the skipped problems, "No Response" is written down automatically.
- Control of data input: the software would not allow one to enter a wrong answer code for any particular characteristic.
- Logical control of the information. For example, the person contradicts himself/herself on two semantically identical characteristics. In this case, before termination of input of the questionnaire or characteristics the respective warning will be given that a logic error is detected. Thus, the operator gets a possibility to verify the questionnaire, to return to its editing or to place this questionnaire into the array of the logically ill-conditioned questionnaires for the subsequent analysis.
- Possibility of data export into the SPSS software package, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Access.
- Possibility to keep separately the following information arrays:
- questionnaires, which are logically correct and contain no operators' errors;
- questionnaires that have been entered with no errors by operators, but contain logic errors (for example, the respondent contradicts himself/herself on two semantically identical characteristics). These questionnaires are intended for the subsequent analysis and possible amending by economists and analysts.
- Automatic transfer of questionnaire with corrected errors into the category of correct questionnaires after the editing/correction process is completed.
More detail on the system operation with questionnaires is given in chapter "User's guide".
Functions related to the system administration.
- Set-up of the users' list
- Set-up of a user's login name and password.
- Management of the rights of the system users
- Set-up of the system mobile users (see Palm Sure.)
- Set-up of network workplaces (see Network SURE).
