CfMC FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Survent and webSurvent in your shop
How do you prepare a questionnaire ready for use with Survent and webSurvent?
- by creating Survent “specs” at line-command, the programmer has access to the most features and sample flexibility
- the menu-driven, browser-based quickSurvent, enables survey programming with no training necessary
What are the components of a questionnaire?
- the question title
- the possible responses to the question
- any logic skips or conditions in the question
- quota group definitions
- access to system or sample file information (CATI)
- special instructions for the interviewer (CATI)
What are the overall capabilities and limits for Survent and webCATI?
- no. of individual questions and data columns allowed: 32,000 per questionnaire. Questionnaires can also be linked, making the number of questions for a survey unlimited.
- no. of people that may be interviewed: unlimited
- limitations for any single question:
- up to 10 screens
- 1,000 multiple-response codes
- 10,000 single response answers
- characters per open-end responses: 5,000
- maximum allowed for closed and open ends.: 50Mb (not including sounds and pictures which are stored separately)
- logic conditions and references to other questions: 3,000
- keep/allow/exclude responses from a previous lists?: yes
