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Campus Edition

Snap Campus - For use in Universities & Colleges - please call the team for more information and pricing.

Questionnaire design

  • Survey wizard for easy questionnaire creation.
  • WYSIWYG questionnaire design and printing.
  • Buttons or right-mouse button style definitions.
  • Use questions from Demographics and Lifestyles SurveyPak question library.
  • Use other specialist SurveyPak libraries (an additional cost).
  • Copy questions from other Snap surveys.
  • Questionnaire editing, even after start of data entry.

Questions

  • Multiple choice, date, quantity and literal questions.
  • Single or multiple response options.
  • Title, sub-title, notes and instruction fields.
  • Up to 65,000 questions/variables per survey.
  • Up to 2,000 answer codes per question.
  • Up to 10,000 characters per literal response.
  • Up to 1,000 characters for question and code labels.
  • 3 Missing values on each question – No Reply, Not Asked and Errors.

Formatting

  • Fonts, box shapes, colours and numbering.
  • Graphics and background colours.
  • Templates for house-style questionnaire layout.
  • Graphics can be included as part of questions.
  • Printed watermarks as background.
  • Automated question renumbering.
  • Single or multiple column layout, with either portrait or landscape page set up.
  • Spell checker.

Data entry

  • Up to 100,000 respondents per survey. (100 million with DBX extension).
  • Up to 1,000,000 characters per case.
  • Spell checker.
  • Four methods of data entry for paper, CATI and CAPI, on-screen interviewing and specialist key-data entry modes.

Question logic

  • Editing includes range and logic checks, bulk changes, and calculations.
  • Automatic routing following question logic.
  • Configuration of non-response strategy.

Data validation and cleaning

  • Automatic range checking of all fields.
  • Automated verification of data entry.
  • Filtering to select cases for browsing and/or printing reports.
  • Search and replace feature for data cleaning.

Results analysis

  • Create tables, charts and statistics directly from questions.
  • Derived variables to combine / recode answers from combinations of different questions.
  • Unlimited filters for segmentation and access to subsets of data.
  • Weighting by any combination of factors or other question codes.
  • Automatic saving of all results with each survey.
  • Incorporate notes and comments with individual stored results.

Summary Analysis

  • Full summary presented in questionnaire format with either percentages or absolute values.
  • Filters can be applied to explore subsets of data.
  • Configuration of non-response strategy.

Tables

  • Choice of crosstabulation, frequency, grid and holecounts.
  • Results expressed as row, column or total percentages, or as expected or index values.
  • Results can be ranked and zero suppressed.
  • Predefined table templates which are customizable and re-usable.
  • Question responses may be dynamically split, combined and regrouped to construct multi-way analyzes.
  • Maximum size table of 2,000 rows by 2,000 columns.
  • Maximum of 125 characters for definition of analysis, break or filter field.
  • Maximum of 8 digits in a table cell.

Charts

  • 2D and 3D bar, pie, line, area, step, scatter, radar, donut, gantt and hi-lo charts.
  • Predefined chart style templates which are customizable and re-usable.
  • Chart titles, footnotes, bar and sector labels, values and percentages, background colours and images.
  • Pictograph bar charts using BMP and WMF image files.
  • Perspective rotation and modification of light source location and intensity on 3D charts.
  • Wizard for easy chart creation.

Statistics

  • Averages: mean, mode, median.
  • Data spread statistics: minimum, maximum, range, quartiles, variance, standard deviation, standard error.
  • Distribution statistics: Kurtosis and Skewness.
  • Significance testing: t-test, confidence intervals, chi-squared.
  • Statistics on crosstabulations: Chi square, Cramers V, Phi coefficient, Contingency coefficient, significance tests and confidence intervals.

Literals

  • Full listings of all literal responses, printed or exported to a word processor.
  • Selected listings based on "keyword" searches or by use of filters.
  • Recoding of key words to form additional derived variables.

Volume report production

  • All tables, charts and statistics stored with each survey for instant recall.
  • Batch operation to generate large volume reporting in a "macro" style.
  • Creation of electronic (Adobe PDF) versions of all results for distribution to colleagues.
  • Snap E-viewer software distributed free for easy access to tables, charts and statistics.

Import / Export

  • Raw data can be imported into Snap in a flat ASCII file, comma, tab or space separated. Excel data will be accepted as text fields rather than codes.
  • Results can be exported to other software packages for further manipulation – Triple S, SPSS SAV format, Office products.

System requirements

Hardware

  • Additional 12 MB of available hard-disk space.

Software

  • Snap Professional.
  • JavaScript-enabled browser such as Netscape Navigator 4 or Internet Explorer 4 and above.