Data Collection Family

Formerly PASW Data Collection Author

Create visually appealing surveys from a simple, intuitive interface, without worrying about scripting or programming

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Author enables marketers and survey professionals to create visually appealing surveys through a simple, intuitive interface. IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Author has been developed to assist survey creators with streamlining the process of survey creation, ensuring that they get into the field faster and allowing a more efficient collection and collation of responses. As a result, crucial information is available more quickly, allowing decisions to be made more rapidly.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Author enables you to:

• Test the entire survey or preview a specific question or group of questions, without having to publish it to a server
• Create and manage survey logic with sophisticated routing capabilities
• Save time with the module’s local library that stores pre-defined questions, your favourite questions and survey templates
• Introduce a question or set of questions that will be automatically repeated on each survey page

Formerly PASW Data Collection Dialer

Provide accurate, automatic and predictive digital dialling of respondent telephone numbers for phone surveys

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Dialer is a hardware solution that is configured to enable automatic and predictive dialling for the IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Phone solutions. Predictive dialling minimises the amount of time that interviewers must wait before being connected with respondents as interviewers bypass busy signals, unanswered calls, modems and incorrect numbers. Repetitive dialling is eliminated and job satisfaction is improved amongst your employees. Organisations using IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Dialer have reported up to 80 percent productivity gains, with an average of at least 40 percent.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Dialer enables you to:

• Monitor interview screens and voices from any phone or station, which is particularly useful for management to ensure quality control
• Easily include jingles or other audio in your telephone interviews, eliminating the need to hold the telephone over a cassette player
• Record responses to open-ended questions, providing richer information for your coders

Formerly PASW Data Collection Interviewer

Conduct surveys without relying on an internet connection or phone interviewers

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer is a dynamic, easy-to-use survey software system that works with any laptop or tablet PC. It does not require an Internet connection, so you have the freedom to go anywhere your target respondents go. IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer gives you the power to field rich, multimedia surveys for a more engaging survey experience. Use pictures, audio or movies to motivate respondents and capture deeper insights.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer enables you to:

• Broaden your survey to participants that can’t be reached through the internet or the phone
• Capture feedback of in-person interviews, electronically, with the user-friendly data entry mode
• Validate your data in real time, ensuring your data is always clean and ready for analysis
• Keep your interviewers focused on data collection by letting the software manage the project and data synchronisation

Formerly PASW Data Collection Interviewer Phone

Design and manage surveys, using a Web browser and field them online or by phone

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Phone provides full support for computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). With IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Phone, your interviewers have an onscreen view of all relevant participant information, the questionnaire itself and all the possible call outcome codes they might need. This product helps you to efficiently manage response data as well as protect data integrity.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Phone enables you to:

• Enhance interviewers’ productivity by allowing interviewers to enter responses using only the keyboard
• Request individual records on-the-fly for inbound calls and transfer participants to an online version of the survey automatically  (Please note to field surveys online, one would need to purchase Web Connections)
• View interim and final reports on survey data, including frequency and crosstab statistics, summary tables, lists of verbatim responses and percentages, in real time, through a web browser

Previously PASW Data Collection Paper

Develop and format paper questionnaires

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Paper empowers you to quickly create and format any type of paper questionnaire. It runs as an extra menu in Microsoft Word, giving you a familiar business tool interface that is tailored for survey research.  Once the questionnaire is opened, the most appropriate layout and question formats can be selected from a set of survey templates, resulting in consistently professional looking questionnaires.  With IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Paper, interviewers are more likely to administer surveys correctly and respondents are more likely to complete them ensuring good response rates and data quality.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Paper enables you to:

• Centralise the storage of surveys and templates for easy access by individals or groups
• Format paper questionnaires automatically and consistently
• Easily incorporate last minute changes to surveys

Formerly PASW Data Collection Translation Utility

Create multilingual versions of questionnaires and instructions

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Translation Utility is specifically designed to help you manage multilingual projects easily and efficiently. It allows you to create translated texts to be used at any stage of the survey process, from fielding surveys to analysis and publication.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Translation Utility uses familiar Microsoft Office features, making it easy to learn. A spreadsheet-like grid system displays the base language and all translations. IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Translation Utility separates the survey text from the survey logic, allowing translators to work on text independently in an environment specifically designed for them.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Translation Utility enables you to:

• Ensure that your surveys are truly comparable across all languages
• Store multiple translations in a single file
• Use one tool and one data format for all your translations, including Asian languages that use double-byte characters

Formerly PASW Data Collection Remote Administrator

Manage your interviewers and projects

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Remote Administrator is a separate product that can be added to Interview Player. It makes managing and synchronising your survey research results almost effortless. IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Remote Administrator works in the background, tracking and managing results across multiple field interviewers and other survey modes. It automatically detects when a stable Internet connection is available and sends collected data to a central repository. Your results are available in real time, as you need them.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Remote Administrator enables you to:

• Easily assign projects to interviewers and interviewers to projects
• Manage changes in the field without relying on email
• Automate the process of synchronising field survey data with data collected online or over the phone

Formerly PASW Data Collection Scan

Automate the preparation of paper questionnaires for scanning

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Scan eliminates the time consuming step of manually preparing surveys for scanning.  IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Scan automates the preparation of surveys for scanning, making it cost effective to scan not only large, continuous projects but also small, ad hoc surveys. IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Scan works seamlessly with the popular ReadSoft® Eyes & Hands® FORMS scanning solution. You simply format a questionnaire in IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Paper, transfer it through IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Scan, using the ReadSoft® scanning solution and begin scanning.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Scan enables you to:

• Process over a million questionnaires in one day
• Protect and promote information accuracy
• Automate the identification and setup of all respondent input areas of your survey questionnaire, such as tick boxes, letters and numbers for optimal mark reading (OMR) or optical character recognition (OCR)

Formerly PASW Reports for Surveys
 

Create reports that make a difference

IBM® SPSS® Reports for Surveys, as well as IBM® SPSS® Reports for Surveys (server), are solutions that are designed specifically for information consumers and survey researchers who are interested in interactive reporting and determining key insights from survey data. IBM® SPSS® Reports for Surveys enables you to work with your data completely offline. IBM® SPSS® Reports for Surveys (server) enables you to maximise efficiency and security by ensuring that high-volume tasks such as data processing and aggregation are done on a server, while the power of the desktop for interface-related tasks is still used. Since both tools provide the same interface and functionality, moving between the online and the desktop reporting environments is completely seamless.

IBM® SPSS® Reports for Surveys enables you to:

• Create cross tabulations to identify patterns in your data
• Build tables, filter results and add or edit variables
• Profile data and drill down to single-respondent detail for more focused and detailed insights
• Export tables and reports to Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft Word® or HTML

Formerly PASW Web Reports for Surveys

Tabulate and visualise survey results over the Web in real time

IBM® SPSS® Web Reports for Surveys enables you to tailor the table-building process to your individual preferences, resulting in the rapid creation of useful tables. The results can be presented to clients in any city or country via a secure connection. In this way, you can keep colleagues and clients up to date on the most recent findings by offering an efficient way to share your results.The tables are interactive and customisable and can be published to Microsoft Excel® and other popular reporting applications.

IBM® SPSS® Web Reports for Surveys enables you to:

• Create instant custom tables using drag-and-drop features
• View tables as you create them
• Use data in different formats and even different languages, without changing the user environment
• Ensure that people see only the information that you want them to see using IBM® SPSS® Web Reports for Surveys exclusive security technology 

Formerly PASW Data Collection Interviewer Web

Field surveys over the Web

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Web is specifically designed for online survey research. It enables you to create visually appealing surveys customers will be eager to complete. Data collection Interviewer Web offers an unmatched level of technical sophistication that enables you to select and manage samples efficiently and collect data securely.

Invite respondents to participate in your online survey by sending them an automatically generated e-mail with the link to the survey. These surveys can be password-protected to guard the privacy of survey respondents. This entitles the responded to stop taking a survey and complete it at a later stage; a convenience that generally leads to higher completion rates.

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Web enables you to:

• Share your templates and questionnaires with others, ensuring consistency and maximising reusability
• Monitor results and download data while your survey is still being conducted
• Make changes to the survey to improve effectiveness during the fielding process, without any interruption to questionnaire completion
• For greater impact, include images and Web-based media such as sound, movies, Flash® files, avatars, and more