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Title Using a fillable PDF together with SAS ® for questionnaire data
Author Donald, E.
Year 2010
Access date 18.05.2013
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The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how to use a fillable PDF to collect data and use SAS®to import and summarize the answers from the questionnaires. When a  respondent uses the fillable PDF to answer a question, the PDF is storing the information in XML language in the background of the program. This information can be read and converted into a database format with the built-in SAS XML Engine. An intermediate step is required whereby additional information is added to the xml to identify the start and end of a table and the start and end of a record. This technique is especially effective with questionnaires containing more than 256 fields – the column restriction for Excel 2003.

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