You include open-ended questions in your surveys because you know there’s great value in letting people express their views in their own words. But it can be tedious, time-consuming, and costly to categorize or "code" text responses.
SPSS Inc. created SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to help you gain full value from text responses without the drudgery and expense associated with manual coding.
Specifically designed for survey text, SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys is based on our powerful LexiQuest™ natural language processing (NLP) software technologies. SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys offers both automated and manual techniques, giving you greater control over the process and your results.
With SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys, you can import data not only from SPSS for Windows, Microsoft® Excel®, and ODBC-compliant databases but also from our versatile Dimensions family of survey research products, which includes solutions for paper-based, Web-based, and telephone interviewing. Export results created in SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys either as categories or dichotomies for further analysis in SPSS, mrTables, or Excel.
Benefits of Using SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys
Whether you conduct surveys to support decision making in business, education, or government, or as part of your academic research, you can benefit from using SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys to categorize text responses. For example:
- If you're currently categorizing responses in-house, you can do so faster, yet with equal or greater reliability
- If you use outside services to categorize responses, you can save money by doing some or all of it in-house instead
- If you categorize responses for clients, you can streamline the creation of categories, making your process more efficient and increasing client satisfaction
- You can save and reuse categories, saving time and making your analysis of similar or “follow-up” surveys more consistent
- Your analysis, whether for internal use or for clients, will provide added insight into survey participants’ opinions, attitudes, and behavior
New features in SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys 2.0 extend and enhance the abilities of this software. You can now:
- Work with others by sharing project files across your organization
- Reuse category work in new projects by importing and exporting existing categories and category definitions
- Categorize responses based on more complex information or filter erroneous responses by creating conditional rules for categories
- Profile categories by overlaying reference variables onto bar charts