IBM SPSS Data Collection Scripting: (Survey Creation) Level I SPVC

Chapter 1. Introduction to SPSS IBM Data Collection Scripting

• About IBM Business Analytics
• Product name references
• Introduction to the Data Collection Scripting Survey Creation Course
• Data Collection Scripting
• The Survey Scripting Process
• Coding Standards and Conventions
• Curly, Square or Round?
• The Widgets Inc Customer Satisfaction Survey

Chapter 2. The Script Development Environment

• Introduction
• Starting Author Professional
• The Main Panels and Menus
• Opening and Creating Interview Script
• Boilerplate Interview Scripts - Using Templates
• Packaging an entire project
• Organizing your Survey Files - Using Workspaces
• Options Within Author Professional

Chapter 3. Accessing Developer Library

• Introduction
• Bookmarks
• Sharing DDL Locations
• Searching for DDL content
• Additional DDL content

Chapter 4. Creating Questions with Typed Responses

• Introduction
• Information Items
• Basic Question Types
• Numeric (Long) Questions
• Numeric (Double) Questions
• Open Text Questions
• Boolean (True/False) Questions
• Date and Time Questions
• Using AutoAnswer to progress through the interview

Chapter 5. Creating Questions with Categorical Response Options

• Introduction
• Simple Categorical Questions
• Basic Question Syntax
• Response Names and Response Texts
• How Many Responses Can Be Chosen
• Assigning keycode values to responses
• Single-Choice Responses in Multiple Response Lists
• Subheadings in Response Lists
• Syntax for Specifying Subheadings in a Categorical question

Chapter 6. Handling Special Responses

• Introduction
• Additional General Information:
• Special Responses in a Categorical Question
• Using an "Other" category
• Using Other Specify Within Subheadings
• Adding Special Category Codes onto Text or Numeric Questions

Chapter 7. Sorting and Ordering Categorical Responses

• Introduction
• Responses with Fixed Positions in the Response List

Chapter 8. Setting Up for Analysis

• Introduction
• Adding Factor Values to Categories
• Preparing for Tabulation of Questions
• Adding Alternative Analysis Labels
• Adding Analysis Values for Export

Chapter 9. Creating Basic Routing Logic

• Introduction
• Routing Section
• Your Editing Assistant: Author Professional's ScriptAssist
• Organizing Your Windows
• Asking Questions
• Displaying Answers to Questions
• Creating Routing Statements Using the Metadata View Pane
• Annotating the Script with Comments
• Temporarily Disabling a Section of Script
• Finding and Understanding Respondent's Answers to Questions
• Setting up Conditional Logic in the Routing Script
• Logical Evaluations
• Using Functions to Set up Testing Logic
• Jump Statements

Chapter 10. Sharing Category Lists Across Questions

• Introduction
• Creating a Shared List
• Using a Shared List as the Response List of a Categorical Question

Chapter 11. Creating and Using Macros

• Introduction
• Working with Macros
• Default Routing Script Macros
• Using a Macro
• Creating a New Macro
• Editing Existing Macros
• Deleting Existing Macros

Chapter 12. Restricting Displayed Responses

• Introduction
• Filtering Categories
• Restricting responses to those answered in a previous question
• Restricting Responses to Those Not Answered
• Defining your Own Filter Categories
• Combining Categories from Questions on a Filter
• Resetting the Categories Back to the Full List

Chapter 13. Testing your Questionnaire

• Introduction
• Testing with Auto Answer
• Running Multiple Interviews Automatically
• Saving AutoAnswer Data Values to a database
• Debugging Different Error Types
• Stepping Through the Code
• Setting Breakpoints
• Skipping to a Specific Place in an Interview Script
• Examining the Answers to Questions
• Viewing and Setting Answers to Questions
• Showing Line Numbers

Chapter 14. Asking Grid Questions and Repeating Questions

• Introduction
• How Loops and Grids Work
• Creating Categorical Grids
• Numeric Grids
• Mixing question types in a single grid
• Repeating Questions Across Pages - Asking a Loop
• Specifying Question Texts on Loops and Grids
• Filtering Grids and Loops

Chapter 15. Inserting Texts into Questions

• Introduction
• Text Inserts for Question Texts
• Inserting Answers to Previous Questions
• Specifying the Insertion Text in the Routing Script
• Handling Text Insertions with Multi-Language/Multi-Context Studies

Chapter 16. Enhancing the Flow of the Survey

• Introduction
• Adding and Controlling Page headings
• Controlling Navigation Buttons
• Calculating and Storing Values
• Setting Initial and Default Response Values
• Setting the Size of a Text/Numeric Input Box
• Setting Category Ordering in the Routing Section
• Setting the Interview Language
• Setting the End of Interview Text

Chapter 17. Displaying Multiple Questions on a Page

• Introduction
• Listing Multiple Questions on a Page
• Page filters

Chapter 18. Controlling Page and Question Layout

• Introduction
• Page Templates
• Styles
• Controlling the Presentation Through Routing Script
• Formatting Individual Word in Question Texts
• Putting Line Breaks into Texts

Chapter 19. Working with Participant Records

• Introduction
• Offline testing of Participant Management
• Setting up the Offline Participant Record file
• Telling Author Professional to use a Project Specific xsu file.
• Retrieving Sample Management Information Within the Script
• Saving Sample Information in the Survey Database
• Updating Sample Information in the Participant Database

Chapter 20. Activating Interview Scripts

• Introduction
• Final scripting options to consider, before deploying
• Local or Server deployment
• Server Deployment - Before Activating with Author Professional for the First Time
• Server Deployment - Using the Activation Option in Author Professional
• Survey Deployment - The Activation Process
• Survey Deployment - Activation console
• Local Deployment
• When to Reactivate Interview Scripts
• Other deployment options