Web Survey Bibliography
This study is aimed at evaluating the capabilities of open source software to satisfy technical and methodological requirements for the development of electronic questionnaires for statistical surveys. In other words, to understand whether they could offer a reduction in license costs still guaranteeing high levels of efficiency and usability quite similar to those offered by commercial software. To this aim, some open source software were compared with Blaise, which is a commercial software used by many National Statistics Institutes (NSIs) since its functionalities and characteristics can be considered standards to be observed by software for CAI applications. The comparative analysis consisted in developing, with the selected open source software, a prototype of an electronic questionnaire containing a minimum set of functionalities that a CAI questionnaire should carry out. As the selected software were not able to satisfy this minimum set, we designed and implemented a possible strategy to develop, in-house, an ad-hoc product based on XM (eXtensible Markup Language Database Theory.
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Web survey bibliography - NTTS 2009 - New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics 2009 (12)
- The new IT environment for the Italian consumer price survey; 2009; Giannini, R., Polidoro, F., Sgamba, A. M., Silipo, M., Spagnuolo, F., Virgillito, A.
- Comparative analysis among open source and commercial software for the development of electronic questionnaires...; 2009; Capparucci, L., Degortes, M., Landriscina, M., Murgia, M.
- The automatic coding of Economic Activities descriptions for WEB users; 2009; Colasanti, C., Macchia, S., Vicari, P.
- Large Scale Digital Data Collection in Developing Countries: Is The Time Right? ; 2009; Hattas, M., Cronje, M., Berard, O.
- Privacy concerns and electronic data collection: group and individual response to social change in communications...; 2009; Odella, F.
- The relative coverage bias caused by the mobile-only population across Europe; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Implementation of web-based data-collection channel eSTAT for economic entities; 2009; Sillajoe, T.
- Acceptability of the use of new technologies by interviewees in surveys; 2009; Roux, S., Marchal, P., Armoogum, J.
- Optimal Contact Strategy in a Mail and Web Mixed Mode Survey ; 2009; Holmberg, A., Lorenc, B., Werner, P.
- Optimising survey costs in mixed mode environment; 2009; Vehovar, V., Berzelak, N., Lozar Manfreda, K., Belak, E.
- Integrated statistical systems: an approach to preserve coherence between a set of surveys based on...; 2009; Ballin, M., De Francisci, S., Scanu, M., Tininini, L., Vicard, P.
- The Video-Enhanced Web Survey Data Quality and Cognitive Processing of Questions; 2009; Fuchs, M.