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SURVEY SYSTEM is a useful program for creating attitude or climate
surveys. Anyone with minimal skills on the IBM-PC or compatible can
create their own survey. You can create the kind of survey that makes
a general statement and the reader then chooses one of five levels of
agreement about that statement. You first create a pool of general
survey statements/questions in a master file. The statements are then
incorporated into your specific survey. They can be modified, deleted
or moved around once on the specific survey. A neat feature of the
program is it can place the survey output into text files. Once in
these files, you can exit the program and use any wordprocessor with
them. They print in a usable format, but if you want to get fancy or
use Ventura Desktop Publishing on them, this could be useful.
Disk No: 1035
Disk Title: Survey System
PC-SIG Version: S1.3
Program Title: Survey System
Author Version: 2.50
Author Registration: $35.00.
Special Requirements: 320K RAM and a hard drive.
SURVEY SYSTEM is a useful program for creating attitude or climate
surveys. Anyone with minimal skills on the IBM-PC or compatible can
create their own survey. You can create the kind of survey that makes
a general statement and the reader then chooses one of five levels of
agreement about that statement. You first create a pool of general
survey statements/questions in a master file. The statements are then
incorporated into your specific survey. They can be modified, deleted
or moved around once on the specific survey. A neat feature of the
program is it can place the survey output into text files. Once in
these files, you can exit the program and use any wordprocessor with
them. They print in a usable format, but if you want to get fancy or
use Ventura Desktop Publishing on them, this could be useful.
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The following instructions enable you to print the SURVEY documentation
and install the system for immediate use:
1. In order to print the documentation please turn your printer on.
2. After booting your computer place the SURVEY disk in drive A:
3. At the DOS prompt (C>, A>, etc.) type: "TYPE A:SURVEY.DOC > LPT1:"
4. This documentation is approximately 20 pages long.
To install your SURVEY System program on a hard disk:
1. Turn on or Re-boot your computer.
2. At the DOS prompt C>, type: "A:INSTALL" and press ENTER.
3. The SURVEY program and data files will be placed in the SURVEY
Sub-directory on your hard disk drive.
4. To begin the program, type: "CD \SURVEY" and press ENTER.
5. Followed by: "SSMAIN" and press ENTER.
To run Survey System on a floppy system:
1. Place disk #1 in drive A:
2. At the A> prompt type "SSMAIN" and press ENTER.
REMEMBER: Always use a copy of program disks and backup data often!
SURVEY SYSTEM
(Version 2.5)
September 1, 1989
Superior Micro-Techniques
5510 Orchard St. W, Suite B1473
Tacoma, Wa 98467
(206)564-0803
The SURVEY System Software & Documentation are the sole property
of Superior Micro-Techniques and are protected under the Copyright
Laws. Reproduction of any kind without the prior consent of author
is strictly forbidden. Copyright 1987 Superior Micro-Techniques.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction................................... 1
Using Pop-up Menus & Help...................... 2
A sample Survey................................ 2
Using this Documentation....................... 3
Notes About Data Entry......................... 3
File Maintenance (1.0)......................... 4
Master Questions (1.1)......................4-5
Survey Headers (1.2)......................... 5
Survey Questions (1.3)....................... 5
Add From Master Questions (1.3.1).......... 6
Change/Delete a Question (1.3.2)........... 6
Insert a Master Questions (1.3.3).......... 7
Re-arrange Survey Questions (1.3.4)........ 7
Survey Responses (1.4)....................... 7
System Parameters (1.5)...................... 8
Reports Menu (2.0)............................. 8
Print Distribution Survey (2.1).............. 9
Summary of Questionnaire (2.2)............... 9
Summary of Questionnaire by Class (2.3)...... 9
Summary of Master Questions (2.4)............ 9
Comments by Class (2.5)...................... 9
Complete List of Master Questions (2.6)...... 9
Display Ranking Results (2.7)................10
Utilities (3.0)................................10
Reindex Databases (3.1)......................10
Copy all Data Files (3.2)....................10
Display List of Files (3.3)..................11
DOS Backup Data Files (3.4)..................11
DOS Restore Data Files (3.5).................11
Delete Old Surveys (3.6).....................11
Color or Mono Display (3.7)..................11
Alternate Data Path (3.8)....................12
Print Control Code (3.9).....................12
NETWORK Use....................................13
Appendix A-Databases Structures & Indexes...14-16
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 1
Introduction
The Survey System was developed for use by management and
business consultants to get a good sense of the business climate
within an organization without having to extensively interview a
sampling of the employees at the various organizational levels.
It actually turned out to be very effective in time savings to
the consulting group since the administration of it was very
simple. It also allowed for responses from the entire target
population giving a much more precise view of organizational
attitude. Although not a "scientific statistical analysis"
program, it can aid you in making some very specific inferences
about the population.
This software is a complete do-it-yourself survey creation and
analysis tool. The number of surveys you create is limited only
by the amount of storage space. It is flexible in that you
create the questions or statements as well as the population
classifications or frames. It is inflexible in its type of
responses. The respondents will select one of five levels of
agreement to correlate with the statement. Its completly menu-
driven and easy to use. It is also complete; it prints the
survey, collects the responses and outputs the analysis and
results reports. About the only thing you need to add to it is a
cover letter. If you are not satisfied with the pre-formatted
output that I have designed, you can select to pass any report or
the survey itself to an ASCII file to be edited with your
favorite word processor. The file output appears exactly as it
would if printed!
The surveys created by this system are of the climate type. In
other words, people who are responding to the survey will read a
statement and select from five levels of agreement with what the
statement implies. As an example, one statement might read, "The
company has well defined long term goals." And, as with all
surveys created by this software, the possible responses are,
strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree or strongly disagree.
Once many employees of the company have responded to this
statement, you might see that possibly a large percentage of
people said that they disagree with this statement. This should
lead management to make modifications in that area of policy.
You will see that you can also classify the respondents in any
one of three ways. These classifications are strictly up to the
designer of the survey and do not necessarily have to be used.
In the example above it would be useful to know whether those
responses which are most negative are coming from upper level
managers or line supervisors or workers. Classifying respondents
can give you insight as to the reasons for overall response
percentages.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 2
Using Pop-up Menus and Help
This software comes with the most user friendly interface
available to the IBM PC product line as of this version update.
It is quite easy to use. For the opening screen, you are
presented with four choices: File Maintenance, Reports,
Utilities and Quit. Use the cursor control keys on your key-
board to highlight the selection of your choice. As each
option is highlighted a more complete description of its
functionality is displayed on line 24. Press the ENTER key
to access the options available to any of these Main Menu
selections.
After selecting one of the 4 options from the bar Main Menu,
a window will appear with additional choices arranged vertically.
Again, press the up and down arrow keys to highlight the
various choices within these menus. A further description of
each is displayed on line 24. To select one of these options,
press the ENTER key. To return to the Main Menu press the ESC
(escape) key. This will close the window at the same time.
Additional sub-menus may pop up for selections on these
vertical menu windows. In most cases, if you get into something
that you are uncertain of, press ESC to back out of it.
When you have finally gotten to the point where data input is
required or some other information must be typed in, you will
be able to access 'help windows.' The note 'F1 - Help' will
be highlighted in the upper right of the screen or it will be
noted on line 24 notes when the help window is available. As
you guessed press the function key 'F1' to get a help window
to appear. The help is targeted to the function you are trying
to perform at the time help is requested.
A Sample Survey
A very short and simple example of a survey with the survey id
code "SAMPLE" has been created to allow you to quickly examine
the various reports and to test the other options. Once you are
satisfied with the workings of this survey, you may delete all
of its questions as well as the few master questions created
for it.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 3
Using This Documentation
The documentation contained herein is a detailed description
of this program and how each menu option performs, what its
for and how to use it best.
If you have browsed the menus of the software you will have
seen that to the right of each option is a number (e.g. '1.3')
These numbers refer to the section in this documentation that
fully describes their workings.
Please note that the terms 'question' and 'statement' are
used throughout the software and this documentation and they
mean the same thing: a group of text to be rated by a respondent.
Notes About Data Entry
You will quickly notice that in order to modify some piece of
existing information you must generally enter the key information
on an entry point screen (i.e. to change an existing
master question you must first enter the associated master
question number). On this system the pressing of the return key
without entry of some characters is intrepreted as meaning that
you are finished with the particular operation and to the return
to the next higher level menu.
You will also notice that in most instances a prompt such as,
"Type '?' for a list..." appears at the bottom of these screens.
This simply means that by typing a ? in the field will cause a
program to execute which lists in alphabetic or numeric order the
key information which you may need to know in order to complete
the data entry. It is simply a look up screen. If the data you
are looking up is in a very long list, you can narrow down the
view by entering the first 1 or 2 characters of the key you are
searching, followed by the ? symbol and the look up will begin at
that point in the list.
In the case of finding the right survey id code, after pressing
the '?' a window will appear with all available id codes displayed
in it. The first one is highlighted. Use the cursor control
keys to move the highlight to the code you want and press ENTER.
This code will be placed into the field prompt and the program
will continue automatically. If there are multiple pages of
id codes, press the PgDn key to see the continued listing.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 4
File Maintenance (1.0)
The following sections (1.1 - 1.5) describe the majority of the
survey system data input functions. From this menu you will
create a cache of master generic questions/statements to be
used on the individual specific surveys, build the surveys,
record the responses to your surveys and maintain general
system parameters.
Upon selection of menu items 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4 you will be
prompted for the survey id code. Here you must enter a valid,
existing code to continue. Available at these points exists
the ability to open a window to view and select one of your
id codes. To access this window, simply type '?' and press ENTER.
Master Questions (1.1)
Before utilizing your survey system effectively you will need to
compile and enter your list of master questions or statements.
An original design assumption was that you would be creating
very similar surveys many times over for various clients or
tests. Although this is not a necessity, if it is true then you
can essentially create a fairly generic set of statements and
then use them on the individual surveys. A long term benefit of
this is that you can analyze the entire pool of surveys based
on the master question number (which is retained on every
survey) using report 2.4.
In cases where you are creating similar surveys over-and-over,
it will be more efficient to have them instantly available in
this master pool. Simply copy them one-at-a-time into the
current survey and tailor it to be more specific if necessary.
Each statement contained in the master list is created by
assigning it a unique number, from 1 through 999. Thereafter,
all references to that statement will be made using this number.
After selecting this option on the menu, the question maintenance
screen will be displayed and you are prompted for the statement
number. Enter in a non-existing number and a prompt asks if
you want to add this as a new question. After indicating 'Y',
a highlighted box appears. Type in the text of the question.
Be sure to enter the text exactly as you would wish it to appear
on the printed survey or report. There is no automatic word wrap
feature. If a word doesn't fit on one line, hyphenate it or
move it to the next line.
The master questions can be tailored once created on the specific
surveys, so don't worry too much about very specific details.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 5
Master Questions (1.1) (cont)
To modify or delete an existing master question, simply type in
the master question number and it will instantly appear on the
screen for editing. If no editing is necessary, press the PgDn
key and 'Confirm' the entry. At the options bar you may also
select 'D' to delete any existing statement.
Survey Headers (1.2)
Each survey you create will have only one record in this data file.
This record identifies the survey by assigning it a unique code
which is made up of up to ten alpha-numeric characters. It contains
the official title of the survey.
You will identify the popluation classifications on this record
as well. By classification, you will want to be able to identify
the people as belonging to sub-groups. An example classification
would be the marital status of respondents. The classes would be
"married", "single", "divorced" or "widowed." You will see that
one of the reports can break the survey results down by
classification. You do not need to have all or any classes of
respondents though.
You will also notice that there is space for up to five rating
statements. These will consist of some statements which you
want the respondents to prioritize. These will not automatically
print with the survey. They do not need to be a part of the
survey.
Survey Questions (1.3)
This option is used to place the questions into the desired
survey. Once you have created a survey by performing option
1.2, you will be able to add the questions to it. This option
immediately requests you to identify the survey by entering the
10 character survey code. Once you have done so it will lead you
to the sub-menu of options. All options on this menu will affect
only the survey you previously activated. You will notice that
the survey title is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
The survey title will be displayed on all screens when it has
been activated.
If this is the first time you have selected this option since
creating the Survey Header, you will be asked if you want to copy
the questions of another survey into this one. This is handy if
another survey exists with a very similar design. If you
indicate 'Y' or yes, it will ask from which survey to copy the
questions. Enter a valid survey id code and all statements from
that survey will be copied onto the new survey. This option
exists until you have added your first question to the survey.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 6
Add From Master Questions (1.3.1)
Once you have selected this option, the screen clears and prompts
you to enter the master question number. If you do not remember
what it is, simply enter the '?' for a look at the Master
Questions. Enter the master question number and it will display
the master question on the screen. At the screen bottom, the
option bar appears. At this time you have the options of editing
the question on the screen. (This editing affects only the
current survey copy of the question.) Slight modifications to
the question are easily accomplished. You could also delete the
question, which will simply eliminate it from being added to the
current survey. Finally, you will want to confirm the question.
This confirming simply verifies the information and adds it to
the end of the survey. It will automatically be assigned the
next sequential number on the survey.
Continue copying statements from the master list. To end this
function press ENTER with no value in the question number field.
Change/Delete a Question (1.3.2)
Once your survey has statements on it you can edit them or delete
them using this option. Once selected, enter the number of the
question as it appears on the survey. It will be displayed for
your editing. Press PgDn to access the options bar to delete or
confirm the changes made.
To locate the unknown number of a survey question, type '?' in
the number field and press ENTER. A window will appear showing
the questions on the survey. You may browse through this list
to find the desired question. Then press 'Q' to close the window
and enter the question number.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 7
Insert a Master Question (1.3.3)
In many instances you will not want to simply add a master
question to the end of the survey, but place it in some specific
location within the survey. To do so is simply a matter of
identifying the master question and then the question on the
survey to place it before. When this is done, the program
renumbers all following questions by incrementing their number.
Again, a listing of master statements can be obtained by typing
the '?.'
Re-arrange Survey Questions (1.3.4)
You will probably find the need to slightly alter the survey by
moving a question from one location in the survey to another.
This can be accomplished by following the prompts which will need
to know the question number to be moved and the location to move
it to. The move to location is always identified by the question
number before which you want it to reside. To move a question to
the end of the survey you will have to delete the question and
add it over again using sub-option 1.
Survey Responses (1.4)
This option allows the entry of responses to the surveys. As
usual you will be prompted to enter the six character survey code
Next you enter the class codes (A-F) for any classifications
which have been designated in the survey header file. You are
then prompted for the priority order of the ranking statements.
The system will then prompt you once for each question in the
survey. After entering the question responses you are given a
full screen of text entry area for any comments the respondent
has made. Enter these comments exactly as you would like them to
appear on a report. The program does not automatically place
hypens or do word wrapping. You can edit the lines as you enter
them by using the arrow keys, delete key, etc. Once you have
accepted these comments they cannot be changed. If no comments
have been made, press the PgDn key. Once the comments have been
added, the program asks if you want to add more responses to this
survey. This cycle will continue until you indicate that no more
responses exist.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 8
System Parameters (1.5)
This option maintains a database which holds your own name and
address. Most importantly, though are the print control codes
and monitor type code. See the beginning of the Reports Menu
section for complete details regarding the 12 CPI print control
sequence. It is important to find this sequence before
attempting to print any reports (unless you have a wide carriage
printer). The monitor type code allows you to see a colorful
screen if you have a color monitor.
Reports Menu (2.0)
The reports sub-menu allows you to print your completed survey,
analysis reports and editing lists.
After selecting any of the options (except 2.4 & 2.6) you are
prompted for the survey id code. Then a prompt allows you to
either print the report or output it to ASCII file (except 2.7
which only has screen display or file output).
If you indicate that you want the report output to ASCII file,
you will be prompted for a valid drive, path and file name.
If no drive or path is indicated, the file will be placed in
the current drive and directory. If you leave this prompt blank
it will result in aborting the report and returning to menu.
An invalid drive, path or file name will result in the report
not executing. After placing a report into an ASCII file you
will need to exit the Survey System and use your word processor
on it. In this way you can modify it, use special fonts and in
general create a very custom survey.
A note about using printers. Most of the reports in this system
are designed to be printed at 12 Characters Per Inch (CPI). This
is because of the large amount of text to be placed on a normal 8
1/2 X 11 page. Most printers can be made to print in this
fashion by executing a specific sequence of characters via a
program. Under the System Parameters (1.5) option there
exists a field to maintain this 12 CPI control sequence. You
will need to figure out what the sequence is by browsing your
printer manual. Enter the entire sequence observing case
convention into this field and your reports should print
properly. The default print control characters are for standard
Epson printers.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 9
Print Distribution Survey (2.1)
This report prints your finished, or draft, survey. It titles
it and prints it in generally acceptable format. A footnote
at the bottom helps clarify the rating scale.
Summary of Questionnaire (2.2)
This report prints the summary in normal question number order
and displays the results of the responses as the total percentage
of responses at the 5 levels. It will indicate the total number
of respondents at the upper left of each page. This can be
compared to the Total responses column to the far right to
determine the number of persons not responding to any question.
Summary of Questionnaire by Class (2.3)
This is really up to 3 reports in one. At the time that you opt
to print this report, you will be prompted to enter the class you
would like to use. The class title will appear in the report
heading. Each survey question will again be listed numerically
and responses displayed as percentages of levels. Each question,
though, will break the responses down by the group within the
class. The group titles are displayed immediately following the
question.
Summary of Master Questions (2.4)
This report performs a similar analysis and output as described
in section 2.2 above except that it uses all surveys ever. It
calculated response percentages at each level based upon the
master question number of the survey. Remember, each time a
statement is pulled onto a survey the master question number
is retained. Even though the survey number will invariably
differ the master number is maintained. When this report is
run, all responses are sorted by the original master question
number and ananlysis run against them.
Comments by Class (2.5)
Any free form comments that the respondents have made will be
printed as entered into the computer. These responses can be
printed using any of the 3 available classes. Whichever class
you do use will be used to sort the responses and display them by
one of six possible groups. The Group title will be centered on
the report page. The comments will be compressed on the page to
look like one long paragraph, but every fifth one will have a
line space following it.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 10
Complete List of Master Questions (2.6)
Occasionally, it may be helpful to have the entire listing of
questions contained in the master file for editing or reference
purposes. This can be easily accomplished with this option.
Simply have a large supply of paper in the printer and begin the
printing.
Display Ranking Results (2.7)
If you have included statements on your survey for priority
ranking by respondents, this option will prove beneficial in
determining how they stacked up. Select this option to have the
number and percentage of the ratings of each statement appear on
the screen. The screen also shows the total number of people who
have made written comments.
Utilities (3.0)
Utilities are provided mainly to avoid loss of data should
a hardware failure occur. If options 3.2, 3.4 and 3.5 do not
work, it is probably due to lack of adequate memory on your
computer. Try eliminating memory resident programs.
Reindex Databases (3.1)
Occasionally you may have a power outtage which may cause your
data entry to fail or your reports to appear odd. Or, you may
find your system becoming inefficient due to a lot of deleted
records. This option should be able to handle both of these
situations. It first will go through each database in your
system and remove any records previously marked for deletion.
It then reindexes these databases. Run this option as needed
during heavy system use.
Copy all Data Files (3.2)
A quick way to make useable, transferrable copies of your data
files (maybe to use on another computer with this software)
is what this option is for. It simply copies all databases
(.DBF extension) and indexes (.NDX extension) to a floppy
disk in drive A:.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 11
Display List of Files (3.3)
To determine the size of your database files and to see general
information about the current system files, select this option.
It first displays all databases and indicated the number of
records in each. Then it does a directory of the current directory.
DOS Backup Data Files (3.4)
As with all computer systems hardware failure is a definite
possibility. The loss of even several hours of data due to lack
of a backup is a painful experience. To avoid this happening you
will want to run option number 3 after each days activity. You
should have at least 2 rotating sets of backup diskettes. You
will be prompted through this operation.
DOS Restore Data Files (3.5)
If you should happen to accidentally wipe out data or complete
files, or find that a power surge has destroyed the database
integrity, you will need to restore your data files from the most
recent copy of your backup diskettes. First, though, you will
have to reinstall your survey software, if it has been destroyed.
Once you are able to operate the Survey System software, you will
be able to select this option to restore your latest set of back-
up files. You will be prompted through this operation.
Delete Old Surveys (3.6)
On occassion you may want to eliminate some old surveys from your
system to free more disk space or simply because you will have no
further need for the survey. Select this option and you are prompted
for the six character survey id code. Once you have entered a valid
survey code, you will be prompted "DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DELETE THIS
SURVEY (Y/N)?" Once you answer 'Y' to this prompt, the survey will
be deleted and gone forever. Answering 'N' will simply return you
to the utilties menu without any effect. If you have selected 'Y'
all survey information, including header, questions, responses and
comments will be purged from the databases.
Color or Mono Display (3.7)
This option simply lets you select the type of monitor your are
using. If you indicate that you have a color monitor, the colors
will be displayed (white characters on blue background). If you
select Monochrome, black and white will be displayed. You can
alternate between the two settings, but please quit and re-start
the system between color changes.
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Alternate Data Path (3.8)
If you are using this software on a floppy based hardware system
or simply want to place the data in another area on the computer
you can do so via this option. Once your system is booted-up,
select this option and type in the complete drive and path where
you will be putting your data files. (For example, to put all
data on another floppy disk, you might type "B:" as the default
path.) Then exit the software and copy all *.DBF and *.NDX files
to the location specified by the new path setting. Finally,
delete all the *.DBF and *.NDX files from the area (disk) where
the Survey System software is located.
Print Control Code (3.9)
If you want your reports or surveys to be printed using any
special font or attribute (such as, bold or compressed) you can
assign the proper print control code with this option. Once you
select this option, a window will appear requesting that you type
in the proper control sequence. For this program, you can either
place the character within quotes or its ASCII value within the
string 'CHR(??)'. For example, to set my Epson printer for 12 CPI
(12 characters per inch) printing I would type 'CHR(27)+"M"' in
this field. (NOTE: Only the inside double quotes are needed). Then
each time I go to print a report, this is passed to the printer
and my reports come out at 12CPI.
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NETWORK Use
Version 2.5 of The Survey System saw the first appearance of
multi-user (networking) compatibility. This program should
work on any popular Netbios network, such as, Novell, 3Com,
Lantastic, Invisible Network and others.
The networking aspect of this system is most effectively
used for entry of reponses by many operators on a network
for one or more surveys. A caution against having more than
one person creating or editing (adding or moving questions)
the body of a survey is given. Even so, having many people
creating or editing separate surveys should not pose any
problems.
Please keep SMT informed of problems which you encounter
during network use of this product.
CAUTION: Do not have more than one person creating or
editing the same survey at one time. This does not include
adding responses.
SURVEY SYSTEM (Ver 2.5) Page 14
Appendix A - Database Structures & Indexes
Database: S-QUES
Index file: S-QUES Key: QUES_NUM
The master question database will hold basis of all surveys. A
survey question or comment must reside in this database before it
can be applied to any particular survey. Once the question be-
comes a part of the individual survey it can be altered. Each
question/comment can contain up to 120 characters. A two char-
acter question type code can be formulated and applied.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
QUES_NUM Character 3 Unique question number
QLINE1 Character 40 First line - free form
QLINE2 Character 40 Second line - free form
QLINE3 Character 40 Third line - free form
** Total ** 124
Database: S-SURVEY
Index file: S-SURVEY Key: SURV_CODE
The survey database will contain on record for each client sur-
vey performed. It will contain the basic information about each
survey. A survey code will be created using the client code
combined with the year and month of the survey and will have the
form "CLIENTYYMM". The CLASS, DIVISION, MARKET and OTHER fields
will contain descriptions of up to 6 items within each category.
These will begin at each 35th character interval within the
field.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
SURV_CODE Character 10 Unique survey code
SURV_TITLE Character 50 Survey formal title
RATING Character 210 5 1-5 rating stmts 50 char each
CLASS1 Character 210 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS2 Character 210 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS3 Character 210 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
** Total ** 901
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Appendix A - (cont)
Database: S-DTAIL
Index file: S-DTAIL Key: SURV_CODE + SQUESTION
The detail database contains the individual questions/comments
which will makeup the survey. Each record will effectively by a
question/comment. A survey question can be numbered arbitrarily
but the master question number is maintained for later analysis.
The questions can be altered once they become a part of the
survey, but should not be radically different from their master
question counterpart. The questions are related to the survey
heading record through the survey code field.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
SURV_CODE Character 10 Unique survey code
MQUESTION Character 3 Master question number
SQUESTION Character 3 Survey question number
QLINE1 Character 40 First line - free form
QLINE2 Character 40 Second line - free form
QLINE3 Character 40 Third line - free form
ANS0 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 0
ANS1 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 1
ANS2 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 2
ANS3 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 3
ANS4 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 4
ANS5 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 5
** Total ** 155
Database: S-RSPNS
Index files: S-RSPNS Key: SURV_CODE + SQUESTION
The response database will be used to capture the end responses
from the field survey. Each record will be a response to a
question on the survey. If a survey consists of 35 questions
there will be 35 of these records for each returned survey. At
this point the CLASS, DIVISION, MARKET and OTHER field entries
will be matched up the the master survey record.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
SURV_CODE Character 10 Unique survey code
MQUESTION Character 3 Master question number
SQUESTION Character 3 Survey question number
RESPONSE Character 1 Question response 1 - 7
RATING Character 5 Comment rating sequence
CLASS1 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS2 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS3 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
** Total ** 26
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Appendix A - (cont)
Database: S-CMNTS
The comments database consists of the responders free form
comments. Each record will contain one line of 65 characters of
a comment. A transaction code will be applied to each comment to
ensure that the individual lines of comment remain together for
final output. The comments are output by DIVISION, hence the
presence of this field.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
SURV_CODE Character 10 Unique survey code
CLASS1 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS2 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
CLASS3 Character 1 6 possible respondent type (A-F)
TRANS Numeric 6 Unique trans sequence num
COMMENT Character 65 Free form user comments
** Total ** 83
Database: S-SUMM
This database is used whenever report #4 is requested. When a
survey summary by class is desired, the system must create a data
structure to contain the number of responses for each appropriate
class category.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
SURV_CODE Character 10 Unique survey code
CATEGORY Character 1 Contains the class pointer A-F
TITLE Character 35 Holds the A-F class descriptions
ANS0 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 0
ANS1 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 1
ANS2 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 2
ANS3 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 3
ANS4 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 4
ANS5 Numeric 3.0 Cumulative # of response - 5
*** Total *** 64
Database: S-HELP
Index file: S-HELP Key: HELPID + STR(LINE_NO,3)
This file contains the text of all available pop-up help windows.
Field Name Type Width Field Description
HELPID Character 8 Unique help id code
LINE_NO Numeric 3 Line number of help text
TEXT Character 40 Help screen text - 1 line
** Total ** 51
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