Survey Research Software

Computer assisted telephone/personal interviewing software (CATI/CAPI)

Blaise: Blaise® is a powerful computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) system and survey processing tool for the Windows® operating system. Developed by Statistics Netherlands and licensed and supported in the United States and Canada by Westat, Blaise includes many advanced capabilities that meet the high demands of today's CAI surveys:

CASES: CASES is a software package for collecting survey data based on structured questionnaires, using telephone or face-to-face interviewing as well as self-administered procedures. It is developed, distributed and supported by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods (CSM) Program at the University of California at Berkeley.

mrInterview: mrInterview CATI is part of the SPSS Dimensions product family, which provides full support for computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and lets gives your survey participants a choice of response methods. It also include tools that enable you to manage response data, perform survey analysis, and create reports.

Sawtooth: Sawtooth Software has two main systems for writing general market research surveys: CiW (for web-based interviewing) and Ci3 (for interviewing on computers with the Windows operating system).

Statistical Software for Surveys

SAS: SAS software provides tools essential for mastering the four data-driven tasks common to virtually any application: data access, management, analysis and presentation. All within a powerful applications development environment.

SPSS: SPSS is a modular, tightly integrated, full-featured product line for the analytical process—planning, data collecting, data access, data management and preparation, analysis, reporting and deployment.

STATA: Stata is an integrated statistical package for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix, is designed for research professionals.

SUDAAN: SUDAAN is specifically designed for analysis of cluster-correlated data from studies involving recurrent events, longitudinal data, repeated measures, multivariate outcomes, multi-stage sample designs, stratified designs, unequally weighted data, and without-replacement samples. SUDAAN has evolved from a single general survey analysis procedure—STDERR—developed in 1970. Its creation was a response to the need for statistical software that supported analysis of data from complex sample surveys. Although several versatile software packages were available at the time—SPSS, SOUPAC, BMDP, P-stat, OSIRIS, SAS, and Minitab—none was designed to compute standard errors that took into account the survey design.

WesVar: WesVar uses the robust and flexible approach of replication variance estimation. Replication methods apply to sample designs and estimators from the simple to the most complex.

Sampling Companies and Internet Panels

Genesys: Founded in 1987, GENESYS Sampling Systems is a full service sampling company that provides a wide variety of services to the survey research community. The GENESYS Sampling System gives any research company complete, cost-effective, in-house RDD capabilities. Prior to GENESYS, these capabilities were reserved for those organizations large enough to possess the necessary statistical expertise and financial resources to develop and maintain their own systems. This is no longer the case. With the GENESYS Sampling System, all researchers can now possess sample design and sample generation capabilities for a wide range of geo-demographic parameters right on their desktops.

Harris Interactive: Harris Interactive is a worldwide market research and consulting firm, best known for The Harris Poll® and for its pioneering use of the Internet to conduct scientifically accurate market research.

Knowledge Networks: Knowledge Networks is the consumer information company for the 21st century, combining advanced technologies and the highest-quality methods to deliver insights that boost marketing ROI and master your toughest business challenges.

Survey Sampling: Survey Sampling International LLC (SSI) – the preeminent supplier of samples to survey research agencies in the USA, Canada, and Europe – offers a wide range of sampling products for reaching various populations by telephone, Internet, and mail.

Web Surveys

Question Pro: QuestionPro offers a complete set of market research tools for conducting online research. Advanced features for developing surveys include branching, randomization, extraction, and compound branching to name a few. The integrated emailing system gives the researcher the ability to send mass invitations and track response rates. The integration of a global panel of survey repondents allows you to target the right audience of survey participants. Use the online analysis tools or export the data for analysis with SPSS.

Snap Surveys: Snap Survey software supports all survey modes (Web, E-mail, Paper, Kiosk, Phone, PDA, Scanning, Tablet PC). Snap software has robust analysis capability (Tables, Charts, and Descriptive & Multivariate Statistics) and is very extensible - MS Access or SQL database connectivity and seamless integration with SPSS and Microsoft® Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Survey Monkey: SurveyMonkey has a single purpose - to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.

Zoomerang: Zoomerang is the premium global online survey software that business, organizations and individuals use to create professional, customized surveys.

Qualitative Analysis Software

Ethnograph: Ethnograph helps you search and note segments of interest within your data, mark them with code words and run analyses which can be retrieved for inclusion in reports or further analysis. First launched in 1985, Ethnograph was one of the first programs to pioneer computer assisted qualitative data analysis

Hyper Research: HyperRESEARCH™ enables you to code and retrieve, build theories, and conduct analyses of your data. Now with advanced multimedia capabilities, HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video sources.

NVivo: NVivo is a software package that helps researchers organize and analyze complex qualitative data. NVivo allows you to import and code textual data, edit the text without affecting the coding; retrieve, review and recode coded data; search for combinations of words in the text or patterns in your coding; and import data from and export data to quantitative analysis software.

Qualrus: Qualrus stresses flexibility of research methodology and does not force any particular research style on the researcher. It can be used for the full range of qualitative research approaches, including grounded theory in which concepts emerge from the data, cultural analysis, interpretive methods, domain analysis, semiotics, life histories, deconstruction, bracketing, experiential analysis, and narratives.