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SURVEY POWER (tm) Evaluation Version 1.00 Designed to create, analyze, and print out results to your surveys, questionnaires, and opinion polls. (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1991-1992 Published by WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 SURVEY POWER is a copyrighted program distributed as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may make copies of this program and the documentation for a 21 day evaluation purpose only. If you make use of this program, you are expected to pay a registration fee of $29.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and Visa are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Site licenses are available. You can register this program by sending payment to WISCO Computing, P.O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI USA 54495-0008. Registering your copy will provide you with the following benefits: You will receive a disk with the latest version of this program. You will be notified of updates. Future versions can be purchased at a reduced price. This program can only be updated and improved if you support my efforts. If you have any suggestions for improvements, contact WISCO Computing at either the mailing address or the BBS telephone number listed below. WISCO COMPUTING, Attn: Terry L. Jepson, P. O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 Modem support is available on the Rapid River BBS (715) 435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1 MasterCard and VISA orders accepted (715) 423-8189 Voice support is only available to registered users. SURVEY POWER Page 2 I. Introduction SURVEY POWER can create a survey consisting of single choice, multiple choice, rank order, and numeric questions. The program will print the survey, allow recording of survey responses, perform complete, demographic, and correlation analyses of the responses. Any analysis may be displayed, printed out or saved as an ASCII file to diskette. The blank survey can also be printed out or saved as an ASCII file to diskette. This program requires a minimum of 320K of random access memory. This program can be run on one or two floppy disks or a hard disk. The files produced by the program can be kept on a separate diskette or subdirectory. The number of surveys that can be counted is limited only by the storage capacity of your diskette or hard disk. A mouse may be used to select files and move through the menus and displays. II. How to Use SURVEY POWER Installation on Floppy Diskettes To install SURVEY POWER on a floppy diskette, format the disk with the command FORMAT/S. Then place this master copy in Drive A:. Type COPY A:*.* B:and press the Enter key. If you only have one floppy drive, you will have to exchange disks periodically. Installation on a Hard Disk It is always a good idea to make a separate subdirectory for every program you own. For example, you could make a subdirectory by typing MD WISCO. Then change to this subdirectory by typing CD WISCO. Then place this master copy in drive A: and type COPY A:*.* and press the Enter key. Starting the Program Start this program by typing SURVEY and pressing the Enter key. If you want to suppress the color, start the program by typing SURVEY /B. You will see the introductory copyright screen. Press any key to continue. The Menu will be displayed across the top line of the screen. Help Use the left or right arrow keys to move from menu to menu. Inside a menu use the Up or Down arrow keys to move from item to item. Once your selection has been hi-lited, press the Enter key to confirm the choice and continue. Low intensity choices can not be selected. Pressing the ESCape key will allow you to exit from any menu selection. SURVEY POWER Page 3 III. File Menu New This selection will remove all survey questions, responses and summarized survey data from the computer's memory. Load A Survey After making this selection, a menu of all survey questions files in the current subdirectory will be displayed. You pick one of the displayed files. Create a Survey This selection is used to create a new survey. You will enter a new survey question file name, title, and survey questions. You can create as many surveys as you want and store each under its' own file name on a diskette. The title and subtitle will be centered on all print outs to a printer or diskette. An additional line called info can provide additional information for you. This information will be displayed but will not be printed. Entering the Question Up to 50 questions can be entered. Each question in a survey may be up to three lines long. If the question is shorter that three lines, leave the remaining question lines blank. If (=) the equal sign is entered as the first line of the question, the 3 lines of the previous question will be displayed again. This will speed entry when questions are very similar. You can move between all lines and responses by pressing the Enter, down arrow, tab, up arrow, shift-tab, PgUp, PgDn, and Esc keys. Editing help is continuously displayed in the lower right corner. Entering the Question Type Survey responses can be totalled differently. Enter the letter A or the numeral 1 if only 1 of the listed choices will be an acceptable response. Enter the letter B or the numeral 2 if more than one of the listed choices will be acceptable responses. Enter the letter C or the numeral 3 if the responses are to be ranked from highest to lowest (1 = highest, 5 = lowest). The program will convert these rankings and total the ranked weights. (1 will be converted to a weight of 5, 2 will be converted to a weight of 4, etc. Blank responses will be assigned a weight of 0). SURVEY POWER Page 4 Enter the letter D or the numeral 4 if the responses to this question will be numbers that can be added when the survey is analyzed. Totals will be valid up to 32767. Entering the Responses Up to 5 responses can be entered for each question. If the 5 responses for a question are the same as the previous question, enter the equal sign (=) for the first response and press the Enter key. The responses from the previous question will be quickly copied to the current question. The Action position After the question, question type, and responses have been entered, the cursor is at the action position. Pressing the Enter key will let you proceed to the next question. Enter the letter S (for Save) to save this set of question and responses. Enter the letter B (for Backwards) to make a Backwards jump to review a previously entered question. Enter the letter J (for Jump) to jump forwards to the next survey question. Enter the letter L ( for Last) to move to the last survey question. Enter the letter F ( for Finished) when you have finished entering questions and responses. If any information has changed, you can save the changes before entering survey results or analyzing any responses. Add Questions This selection is used to add questions and choices to a previously saved survey. You will be able to include more choices (up to 5 total) after you have started to record responses. You will not be able to add survey questions if responses have already been entered to these survey questions. Edit Titles This selection is used to edit the previously entered title and subtitle in the computer's memory. This information will be automatically transferred to the data files when they are created. An additional line of information will be displayed. If all questions were analyzed, a total of all surveys will be displayed. If a demographic analysis was performed, the selected question and choice will be displayed. Edit Questions This selection is used to edit previously entered questions and choices in the computer's memory. The questions and choices may be edited even after responses have been entered. However, you will not be able to add or delete any questions to this survey. SURVEY POWER Page 5 Record Responses This selection is used to record responses to the survey that was placed in the computer's memory. Survey responses are automatically saved after each set of responses has been entered. The number of surveys that can be analyzed is limited only by the storage capacity of your diskette or hard disk. At any time during the recording of responses, an analysis may be obtained. The analysis can be either displayed, printed out on paper or saved as an ASCII file on a diskette. The up arrow, down arrow, tab, shift tab, PgUp and PgDn keys allow movement between the action position and the response positions if an incorrect response was entered. The type A single choice question allows only one response (ABCDE). After pressing one of these letters, the letter will be moved to the correct position. The cursor will be placed at the action position. Pressing the Enter key will display the next question and choices. The cursor will move to the first response position. This method requires only two key strokes per question and provides security to check the responses as well. The type B multiple choice question with no ranking allows up to 5 letters (ABCDE) to be entered. The letter and Enter key must be pressed for each choice. When you have finished entering all the letters, press the PgDn key to move the cursor to the action position. The response letters that were chosen do not have to be placed directly horizontal of their corresponding choice. The type C ranking question allows only the numbers 1 to 5 to be entered. If the corresponding response is left blank, it will not be used in the weighting. Press the Enter key after each number is entered. The highest ranking is considered to be 1, the lowest 5. The program will convert these rankings and total the ranked weights. (1 will be converted to a weight of 5, 2 will be converted to a weight of 4, etc. Blank responses will be assigned a weight of 0). Responses to a type D question are totalled when the survey is analyzed. Only whole numbers can be entered. Totals up to 32767 will be valid. Press the Enter key after each number is entered. You can leave the position blank to represent 0. The Action Position Pressing the Enter key proceeds to the next question. Responses to other questions of the current survey can also be reviewed. Enter the letter B (for Backwards) to jump Backwards to a previous question. Enter the letter J (for Jump) to jump forward to the next question. Enter the letter L (for Last) to move to the last survey question. SURVEY POWER Page 6 Responses are automatically saved when the letter S (for Save) is entered. After saving the responses, the first survey question is displayed again and new responses may be entered. Enter the letter F (for Finished) when you finish entering responses. Shell to DOS This selection allows temporary exit to the operating system. SURVEY POWER remains in memory. To return, type EXIT. IV. Analyze Menu For each question, the program computes the percentage of survey participants who checked that choice. For numeric questions, a percentage is calculated as a part of the total response. These menu choices will be inactive (displayed in red on a color monitor or with a bullet on a monochrome monitor) until either a survey question file is loaded or a new file is created. If no responses exist for the survey question file, the menu choices will remain inactive. All Questions This selection will summarize all responses to all questions of the survey in the computer's memory. Correlation This selection is performed to check any relationships between choices made for two survey questions. For each main question choice, the totals of all choices of the second question are found. Demographic A demographic analysis totals all surveys for a user-selected choice to a user selected question. For example, the selected question could have a choice of either male or female. A demographic analysis would provide totals to all questions when the respondent chose male to the selected question. A second demographic analysis would provide totals to all questions when the respondent chose female to the selected question. The most reliable results of a demographic analysis are performed on a type A - single choice question. Use Existing Data Previously saved data files may be quickly read from diskette. The program will make sure that the data file is compatible with the survey questions before proceeding. SURVEY POWER Page 7 Save Current Data Data files may be saved for quick recall later. If all questions were analyzed (All Questions selection of this menu), the file name is automatically set to the same name as the survey question file. If a demographic or correlation analysis was done, you will be asked to supply a file name. View Current Data This selection is used to view a data file that has been retrieved or created from any analysis above. Data from all questions and demographic analysis may also be modified as it is displayed. Modified data can also be saved to diskette. The Home key will move the cursor to the beginning of the data field. The End key will move the cursor to the end of the data field. The left and right arrow keys move the cursor within the data field. Two additional keys are recognized. Pressing Alt-C will clear the displayed data. Pressing Alt-R will restore the original data. The Up and Down arrows will move the cursor to the data immediately above or below the current position. Pressing Tab and Shift-Tab moves the cursor between the data fields and the Action position. Pressing Alt-A quickly moves the cursor between the data fields and the Action position. Action position PgUp will display the summarized data of the 15 previous questions. PgDn will display the summarized data of the next 15 questions. The S (for Save) key will allow you to save any changes you may have made to the diskette file. Pressing Alt-A quickly moves the cursor between the data fields and the Action position. When the letter F (for Finished) key is pressed, you can save the current data, including any changes you may have made. Pressing the letter D (for Detail) key will display detailed information about the question with the check mark. The complete question, choices, responses, and percentage of total responses will be displayed. Percentages are calculated to the nearest whole number. When the detailed information is displayed, you can quickly move from one question to the next. The J (for Jump) key allows you to jump forward to the next question. The B (for Backwards) key allows you to make a Backwards jump to the previous question. The L (for Last) key allows you to move to the last question. The F (for Finished) key allows you to return to the View Data screen. SURVEY POWER Page 8 V. Output Menu If no data file is in memory, a blank survey form can be printed out or placed in an ASCII file on diskette. ASCII files can be imported in almost any word processor for final formatting before publication of the blank survey. Printer If a data file is in memory, the survey questions, summarized data, and percentages can be printed with this selection. The printed results are ready for printing without reformatting or retyping. If no data file is in memory, a blank survey form will be printed. The report can be printed on any printer capable of accepting an ASCII file from the computer. No printer codes were included, so the summarized information could be printed on the widest variety of printers possible. The program was written to prevent the placement of a survey question and the responses to the question appearing on separate pages. Diskette If a data file is in memory, you can create an ASCII file on the current drive or subdirectory. You will be asked to enter a file name. The program will add the extension .ASC to your file name. If no data file is in memory, a blank survey form will be printed. VI. Settings Change Drive/Subdirectory This selection is used to change the current drive or sub- directory. After making this selection, you enter the drive and subdirectory to be made current. Enter the word NONE to store the files created by SURVEY POWER in the same subdirectory (or on the same diskette) as the SURVEY.EXE program. VII. Technical Survey files have a common base name. Different extensions are used for the related files. The extension .SUR is added to the question file. The extension .RAW is added to the raw responses that were recorded for each survey. The extension .ASC is added to any ASCII file saved by the program. The extension .DAT is added to any data file which is saved by the program. If you have specialized needs, this program can be modified. Please contact WISCO Computing at the mail address or BBS phone number listed on the front page of this documentation for rates. Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING P. O. Box 8 Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 (715) 423-8189 Quantity Product Unit Price _____ GRADEBOOK POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ GRADING SKILLS POWER IBM 512K Indiv. License $59.00 _____ CROSSWORD POWER IBM 384K Indiv. License $39.95 _____ WORDSEARCH/BINGO POWER IBM 320K Indiv. License $29.95 _____ SURVEY POWER IBM 320K Indiv. 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