ProNet Edition

The Snap ProNet Edition is a stand alone software package incorporating paper, phone, e-mail and web surveys. With Snap ProNet you can design and publish your questionnaire, enter data and analyze results using tables and charts. Snap also provides the ability to read and update MS Access and SQL database tables (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc.) and is compliant with the Section 508 Access Boards standards and the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines. For specific details see the Snap Web Surveys and Web Accessibility Standards document. You can print paper questionnaires for postal or face-to-face interviews or conduct telephone, e-mail or web-based surveys.

• Summary
• Technical Specifications

Questionnaire design

• Survey wizard for easy questionnaire creation for paper, web, e-mail or phone.
• 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.
• Automated publication of web surveys with routing, 'Must Answer' checks, data validation etc.

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.
• Automated data import of e-mail responses from web surveys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
• Export of results as HTML files for inclusion on websites.

System requirements

Software

• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP or later.

Minimum hardware

• Intel Pentium processor 166Mhz (or equivalent).
• 64Mb of RAM.
• 40Mb of available hard disk.

Recommended hardware

• Pentium 4 2GHz (or equivalent).
• 256Mb of RAM.
• 170Mb of available hard disk space will be required for a full install