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SURVEY POWER (tm) Version 2.00 Designed to create, analyze, and print out results to your surveys, questionnaires, and opinion polls. SURVEY POWER (tm) is a copyrighted program distributed as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may make 1 copy of this program and documentation for a 30 day evaluation. If you decide to continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $39.95 plus $2.00 shipping/handling. Checks, MasterCard, and VISA are accepted. Purchase orders are accepted from schools and Fortune 1000 companies. Building site licenses are also available. All references to SHAREWARE and evaluation software are removed from the print outs of the registered versions of this program. To order the registered version, use the order blank that can be printed from the pull down menu. Registered owners will receive a printed manual, diskette with all improvements since the distribution of the shareware diskette, removal of all references to evaluation shareware, notification of major updates, and voice telephone support. This program can only be updated and improved when you support my efforts. (C)Copyright Terry L. Jepson 1991-1992 Published by WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 WISCO COMPUTING, Attn: Terry L. Jepson, P. O. Box 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0008 Modem support is available on the Rapid River BBS (715) 435-3855 (Free access 300 to 38,400bps V.32bis/V.42bis 24 hr 8/N/1) MasterCard and VISA orders accepted (715) 423-8189 Voice support is only available to registered users. The information contained in the SURVEY POWER program and manual is believed to be accurate and reliable. However, no responsibility is assumed by the author or WISCO COMPUTING for it's use. The author or WISCO COMPUTING shall not be liable for any direct, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of the SURVEY POWER program or this manual. Comments on this publication and on SURVEY POWER are invited. SURVEY POWER is a trademark of WISCO COMPUTING. The computer hardware, software, and printer names used in this manual are the trade names and/or trademarks of their respective owners. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1-1 General Information 1-2 System Requirements 1-3 Capabilities of Survey Power 1-4 Installation 1-5 Starting Survey Power 1-6 The Menu Bar FILES MENU 2-1 New 2-2 Load a Survey 2-3 Create a Survey 2-4 Entering Survey Questions 2-4-1 Cursor Movement 2-4-2 Question Types 2-4-3 Entering Response Text 2-5 Adding Survey Questions 2-6 Editing Survey Titles 2-7 Editing Survey Questions and Response Text 2-8 Deleting Survey Questions 2-9 Print Blank Surveys 2-10 Shell to DOS 2-11 Quit SURVEY POWER RESPONSE MENU 3-1 Record Responses 3-2 Revise Responses COMPLETE AND PARTIAL MENUS 4-1 Information 4-2 Total Analysis 4-3 Demographic Analysis 4-4 Correlation Analysis 4-5 Text Frequency Analysis 4-6 Numerical Detail Analysis 4-7 View Analysis 4-7-1 Viewing A Complete or Demographic Analysis 4-7-2 Viewing A Correlation Analysis 4-7-3 Viewing A Text Frequency Analysis 4-7-4 Viewing A Numerical Detail Analysis 4-8 Printing an Analysis 4-9 Export to an ASCII file 4-10 Export to a Lotus .WKS file 4-11 Saving Survey Data SETTINGS MENU 5-1 Regular Data Drive 5-2 Export Data Drive 5-3 Matching Data 5-4 Printer Selection 5-5 Method to Calculate Surveys 5-6 Saving the Settings EXTRA MENU 6-1 Reset the Printer 6-2 Advance the Paper 6-3 Form Feed the Printer 6-4 Change Screen Colors 6-5 Back Up Survey Power Files 6-6 History of Version 1.00 6-7 History of Version 1.10 6-8 History of Version 1.20 6-9 Specialized Needs 1-1 GENERAL INFORMATION SURVEY POWER is specifically designed to be simple to understand and easy to use. It requires very little knowledge of computers. No commands need to be memorized. The menus allow easy movement through the program so you can begin survey analysis in just a few minutes. The Status Line at the bottom of the screen displays the name of the currently loaded survey file. 1-2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS IBM PC, XT, AT, OR PS/2 or compatible 512K One disk drive or hard drive Blank formatted diskette for survey and data storage Supported printer MS-DOS version 2.1 or later 1-3 CAPABILITIES OF SURVEY POWER SURVEY POWER can create surveys consisting of single choice, multiple choice, text, rank order, and numeric questions. Each survey can have up to 100 questions. The program will print the survey, allow recording of survey responses, perform complete, demographic, correlation, and text frequency analyses of the responses. Any analysis may be displayed, printed out or saved as an ASCII file to diskette. The blank survey can also be printed by a printer or saved as an ASCII file to diskette. This program can be run on one or two floppy disks or a hard disk. Files created by SURVEY POWER can be kept on a separate diskette or subdirectory. The number of surveys that can be counted is limited only by the storage capacity of your diskette or hard disk and the limitations of DOS. A mouse can also select files and move through the menus and displays. Back ups of all survey and data files created by SURVEY POWER can be made by using the DOS COPY command or by using the Back-Up SURVEY POWER files selection of the EXTRA Menu. 1-4 INSTALLATION INSTALLATION ON FLOPPY DISKETTES To install SURVEY POWER on a floppy diskette, format the disk with the command FORMAT/S. Then place this master copy in Drive A:. Type COPY A:*.* B: and press the Enter key. If you only have one floppy drive, you will have to exchange disks periodically. INSTALLATION ON A HARD DISK You should always make a separate subdirectory for every program you own. For example, type MD WISCO to make the subdirectory WISCO Then change to this subdirectory by typing CD WISCO. Then copy this master diskette from drive A: by typing COPY A:*.* 1-5 STARTING SURVEY POWER Enter SURVEY to start the SURVEY POWER program. To suppress the color, start the program by entering SURVEY /B. The introductory copyright screen is displayed. Press any key to continue. The Menu Bar will be displayed at the top of the screen. Some menu selections will be inactive (displayed in red on a color monitor or with a bullet on a monochrome monitor) until either a survey question file is loaded or a new file is created. 1-6 THE MENU BAR SURVEY POWER contains 6 menus. Each menu name is displayed in the MENU BAR at the top of the display screen. Each menu is explained in the rest of this manual. The SIX menus of SURVEY POWER allow easy movement through the program. The MENU BAR at the top of the screen serves as the center of this program. Each menu is accessed by making selections at the MENU BAR. You can select a menu from the MENU BAR by: 1. Using the left or right arrow keys, 2. Holding down the Alternate key and pressing the first letter of the menu name, or 3. Placing the mouse cursor on top of the menu name and pressing the left button of the mouse. Choices are listed below each menu. Select a choice by: 1. Using the up or down arrow keys, 2. Press the first letter of the choice and press Enter, or 3. Placing the mouse cursor on top of the choice name, then press the left button of the mouse. Choices displayed in red letters on a white background, or with a bullet to the left of the choice can not be selected until other actions have been taken. For example, you can not view survey data until a survey file has been loaded. If no responses exist for the survey question file, some menu choices will remain inactive. Pressing the ESCape key allows the exit from menu selections. Quit SURVEY POWER selection on the FILE MENU is the only way to leave SURVEY POWER. Leaving the program with this selection insures that all data has been safely written to their files. If additional information becomes available after this manual is printed, a file called README will be found on the diskette. To print a copy of this file type COPY README PRN at the DOS prompt (C:\>) and press the enter key. FILE MENU 2-1 NEW This selection removes all survey questions, responses and summarized survey data from the computer's memory. 2-2 LOAD A SURVEY After making this selection, a menu of all survey question files in the current subdirectory will be displayed. Use the up and down arrow keys to move the cursor to the file to be selected. Then press the Enter key. 2-3 CREATE A SURVEY This selection is used to create a new survey. You will enter a new survey question file name, title, and survey questions. You can create as many surveys as you want and store each under its' own file name on a diskette. The title and subtitles will be centered on all print outs to a printer or diskette files. 2-4 ENTERING SURVEY QUESTIONS 2-4-1 CURSOR MOVEMENT You can move between the questions and responses by pressing the up and down arrow keys. Movement is in a continuous loop, so pressing the down arrow will immediately take the cursor to the first line of the question. Editing help is continuously displayed in the lower part of the display. Up to 100 survey questions can be entered. Each question in a survey may be up to three lines long. If the question is shorter that three lines, leave the remaining question lines blank. If (=) the equal sign is entered as the first line of the question, the 3 lines of the previous question will be displayed again. This will speed entry when questions are very similar. 2-4-2 QUESTION TYPE Five Question Types are currently supported. Question types can not be revised after any survey responses have been entered. The question type determines the amount of space that will be reserved in the response file. Other question types, based on user requests will be supported in future versions of SURVEY POWER. TYPE A Enter the letter A if only 1 of the listed choices will be an acceptable response. The type A single choice question allows only one response (ABCDEFGHI). TYPE B Enter the letter B if more than one of the listed choices will be acceptable responses. The type B multiple choice question with no ranking allows up to 9 letters (ABCDEFGHI) to be entered. TYPE C Enter the letter C if the responses are to be ranked from highest to lowest (1 = highest, 9 = lowest). The program will convert these rankings and total the ranked weights. (1 will be converted to a weight of 9, 2 will be converted to a weight of 8, etc. Blank responses will be assigned a weight of 0). TYPE D Press the letter D if the responses to this question will be numbers (integers) that can be added when the survey is analyzed. Totals will be valid up to 32767. TYPE E Enter the letter E for the question type for text entry of up to 26 characters. 2-4-3 ENTERING RESPONSE TEXT Up to 9 text responses can be entered for each question. If the 9 responses for a question are the same as the previous question, enter the equal sign (=) for the first response and press the Enter key. The responses from the previous question will be quickly copied to the current question. The tenth response position is reserved for the no response totals. To review previous questions, press the PgUp key. To go to the next question, press the PgDn key. You can save questions and response text at any time by pressing Alt-S (hold the Alt key down and press the S key). When you have finished, press the ESCape key to leave this display. As a safety measure, you will be asked if you want to save this information before returning to the main menu. If you did not previously save the questions and responses, you should press Y for Yes. 2-5 ADD QUESTIONS This selection adds questions and response text to a previously saved survey. You can not add any survey questions or response text after any responses have been recorded for this survey. 2-6 EDIT SURVEY TITLES This selection is used to edit previously entered survey title and subtitles. Editing help is also displayed. Use the Up and down arrow keys to move between the lines. Press Y when you are ready to continue. You will be asked if you want to save this information to your survey file. Answer either Y for Yes or N for No. 2-7 EDITING SURVEY QUESTIONS AND RESPONSE TEXT This selection is used to edit previously entered question and response text. Questions and response text may be edited after responses have been entered. You can not change the question type or add or delete any questions to a survey after responses have been entered. 2-8 DELETING SURVEY QUESTIONS A survey question can only be deleted if no responses have been entered for this survey. 2-9 PRINT BLANK SURVEY This selection is used to print a blank survey without response totals. 2-10 SHELL TO DOS This selection allows temporary exit to the operating system. SURVEY POWER remains in memory. To return, type EXIT. 2-11 QUIT SURVEY POWER This selection is used to leave this program. RESPONSE MENU 3-1 RECORD RESPONSES This selection is used to record responses to the selected survey. The survey was selected when it was loaded from the FILE MENU. Survey responses are saved after each set of survey responses has been entered. The number of surveys that can be analyzed is limited only by the storage capacity of your diskette or hard disk. Help for movement to different questions and to review previous questions is displayed near the bottom of the screen. The question type determines which help messages are displayed. After the response has been entered to your last survey question, press Alt-S to Save this set of responses. After saving these responses, the first question will be displayed again so you can begin entering your next set of responses. At any time during the recording of responses, an analysis may be obtained. The analysis can be either displayed, printed out on paper or saved as an ASCII file on a diskette. The analysis totals and percentages will be displayed as more responses are entered. The type A single choice question allows only one response (ABCDEFGHI). After pressing one of these letters, the next question will be displayed. The type B multiple choice question with no ranking allows up to 9 letters (ABCDEFGHI) to be entered. Press the Tab key to move from one entry square to the next square. The response letters that are chosen do not have to be in any particular order. The type C ranking question allows only the numbers 1 to 9 to be entered. If the corresponding response is left blank, it will not be used in the weighting. Press the Tab key to move from one entry square to the next square. The highest ranking is considered to be 1, the lowest 9. The program will convert these rankings and total the ranked weights. (1 will be converted to a weight of 9, 2 will be converted to a weight of 8, etc. Blank responses will be assigned a weight of 0). Responses to a type D question are totalled when the survey is analyzed. Only integers can be entered. Totals up to 32767 will be valid. Press the Enter key after each number is entered. You can leave the position blank to represent 0. The type E question allows for text entry responses. Each response may be up to 26 characters long. These responses can also be totalled to find the 20 most common responses. 3-2 REVISE RESPONSES After selecting the survey file, you will be asked the question number. A chart displays the survey number and responses. Scroll through the chart using the up and down arrow keys to the response to be revised. The chart will scroll as you reach the top or bottom to display more responses. Use the tab and shift-tab keys to move between responses for type B, C, and D questions. After finishing your revisions, press the ESCape key. The press Y for Yes to save the revised responses. COMPLETE AND PARTIAL MENUS The COMPLETE MENU allows analysis of all surveys questions. The PARTIAL MENU allows detailed analysis of one or two questions at a time. Each analysis can be viewed, printed with a printer, or exported to an ASCII file or Lotus .WKS file. 4-1 INFORMATION The information selection describes the difference between total, demographic, correlation, and text frequency analyses. 4-2 TOTAL ANALYSIS A total analysis calculates totals of all responses and questions. The question total is calculated based on the question type. 4-3 DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS A demographic analysis totals all surveys for a user-selected question and choice. For example, the selected question could have a choice of either male or female. A demographic analysis provides totals to all questions when the respondent chose male to the selected question. A second demographic analysis would provide totals to all questions when the respondent chose female to the selected question. The most reliable results of a demographic analysis are performed on a type A - single choice question. 4-4 CORRELATION ANALYSIS A correlation checks for relationships between choices made for two survey questions. For each choice of the first question, the totals of all choices of the second question are found. Only question types A, B, and E support correlation analysis. 4-5 TEXT FREQUENCY ANALYSIS This analysis is used to determine the frequency of text entries for a type E question. The 10 most frequent responses can be displayed when entering and revising responses by performing this analysis. The 20 most common responses will be included when totals are printed or saved as ASCII or Lotus .WKS files. 4-6 NUMERICAL DETAIL ANALYSIS This analysis calculates totals, averages, minimums, maximums, and response counts for each choice of a selected question. The selected question must be either Type C or D. 4-7 VIEW ANALYSIS This selection is used to view data that has been retrieved or created by an analysis. 4-7-1 VIEWING COMPLETE AND DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSES Data from all questions and demographic analysis may also be modified as it is displayed. Data from correlation and text frequency can not be modified. Modified data can be saved to the file by pressing Alt-S. However, it would be changed back to the original data when another analysis is performed. The best way to change the data summary would be to revise the responses. The Up and Down arrows will move the cursor to the data immediately above or below the current position. Pressing Tab and Shift-Tab moves the cursor between the data fields. Pressing Alt-P will print the complete summary of the question with the check mark. Additional cursor movement directions are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Pressing Alt-Q will Quickly Display detailed information about the question with the check mark. The complete question, response text, responses, and percentage of total responses will be displayed. Percentages are calculated to the nearest whole number. Pressing Alt-A will export the single question summary to an ASCII file on diskette. ASCII files can be imported in almost any word processor for final formatting before publication. The file name will be Q##.ASC. The ## will be replaced by the question number. Additional cursor movement instructions are displayed at the bottom of the screen. 4-7-2 VIEWING A CORRELATION ANALYSIS After selecting two questions to correlate, a chart is displayed indicating how the responses for the choices of the first selected question match the choices made for the second selected question. To print a copy of this correlation summary, press Alt-P. 4-7-3 VIEWING A TEXT FREQUENCY ANALYSIS After selecting a type E question, the most frequent responses for the question will be displayed. To print a copy of this text frequency summary, press Alt-P. 4-7-4 VIEWING A NUMERICAL DETAIL ANALYSIS This selection will display a chart of the selected Type C or D question. In addition to the totals, the average, minimum, maximum, and response count for each choice of the selected question will be displayed. 4-8 PRINTING AN ANALYSIS This selection will print the most recently performed analysis with this menu to the printer. 4-9 EXPORT TO AN ASCII FILE This selection will create an analysis file on the export drive. An ASCII file is readable by most programs. The subdirectory must have been created previously with DOS. If the subdirectory doesn't exist, the error PATH NOT FOUND will occur. The program will add the extension .ASC to the survey file name. The created file will be the last analysis (correlation, text entry, or numerical detail) that was performed with this menu. 4-10 EXPORT TO A LOTUS .WKS FILE This selection creates an analysis file on the export drive that can be read directly by spreadsheet programs that can read .WKS files. The subdirectory must have been created previously with DOS. If the subdirectory doesn't exist, the error PATH NOT FOUND will occur. These files make it easy to graph an analysis with other programs. The created file will be the last partial analysis (correlation, text entry, or numerical detail) that was performed. 4-11 SAVE DATA Complete, demographic, and correlation summaries are saved with the survey questions to insure compatibility of question and survey data. SETTINGS MENU 5-1 REGULAR DATA DRIVE This selection is used to change the current drive or sub-directory that will contain the survey questions and responses. The subdirectory must have been created previously with DOS. If the subdirectory doesn't exit, the error PATH NOT FOUND will occur. After making this selection, you enter the drive and subdirectory. Enter the word NONE to store the files created by SURVEY POWER in the same subdirectory (or on the same diskette) as the SURVEY.EXE program. 5-2 EXPORT DATA DRIVE This selection is used to change the current drive or sub-directory that will contain the Lotus .WKS and ASCII files. The subdirectory must have been created previously with DOS. If the subdirectory doesn't exit, the error PATH NOT FOUND will occur. After making this selection, you enter the drive and subdirectory. Enter the word NONE to store these files created by SURVEY POWER in the same subdirectory (or on the same diskette) as the SURVEY.EXE program. 5-3 MATCHING DATA If there is no matching data, either a zero or space can be displayed and printed. 5-4 PRINTER SELECTION The following printers are currently supported by SURVEY POWER. Epson FX or Epson LQ Okidata IBM Proprinter Panasonic KX P1091i Toshiba P351 HP LaserJet/DeskJet Diablo 630 User Defined Additional printers may be supported in future versions of SURVEY POWER. Printer codes for User Defined printers can also be entered in the program. After the printer is selected, additional questions about your printer accessories will be asked. 5-5 SAVING THE SETTINGS This selection must be used to save the settings so they can be used the next time SURVEY POWER is started. EXTRA MENU 6-1 RESET PRINTER This selection will send reset codes to the printer. 6-2 ADVANCE PRINTER This selection will advance the paper 1 line. 6-3 FORM FEED THE PRINTER This selection will eject a page from the printer. 6-4 CHANGING THE SCREEN COLORS Screen colors may be changed to your personal preference, or because the regular colors may be hard to see on a lap top. Up to 127 color combinations may be used by SURVEY POWER. When this selection is made, a chart showing the 127 color combinations and their associated numbers is displayed. Following are the default (starting) values for screen colors. You may enter different numbers from the displayed chart: Color Monochrome Normal Screen Colors: 023 007 Help Screen Colors: 113 007 Pull Down Menu Colors: 043 112 Error Colors: 079 112 Text Entry Colors: 112 007 Menu Selection Colors: 007 007 When you have finished entering this information, press the ESCape key. The enter a number for the mouse cursor color. The number (1-7) refers to the displayed chart. For example, 4 represents red. Then you will asked if you want to save these new colors. 6-5 BACK UP SURVEY POWER FILES All SURVEY POWER files with .SVP, .RTJ, and .ASC can be backed up with this selection. First you will be asked to enter the Drive and optional subdirectory to back up the files. If you are backing up the files to a subdirectory, the subdirectory must have been PREVIOUSLY created with DOS. 6-6 HISTORY OF VERSION 1.00 Survey files have a common base name. Different extensions are used for the related files. The following filename extensions were used in versions 1.00 TO 1.09. Filename.SUR Survey Questions Filename.RAW Raw Response Information Filename.DAT Summary Analysis Data 6-7 HISTORY OF VERSION 1.10 These versions added support for the Type E questions, and reduced the size of the Raw Response file. For example, one response file was reduced from 87000 characters to 3306 characters. This response file format is still used in the current version. The following filename extensions were used in versions 1.10 TO 1.19. Filename.STJ Survey Questions Filename.RTJ Raw Response Information Filename.DTJ Summary Analysis Data 6-8 HISTORY OF VERSION 1.20 Version 1.20 and later combined the SURVEY POWER questions with the summary data files, helping eliminate file clutter and making this data immediately accessible for viewing. Support was added for creating ASCII and Lotus .WKS files. Support was also added for changing screen colors. The following filename extensions are used in these versions: Filename.SVP Survey Questions and Survey Analysis Data Filename.RTJ Raw Response Information (same as ver. 1.10) Filename.WKS Lotus .WKS file able to be read by spreadsheets Filename.ASC ASCII file readable by most word processors 6-9 SPECIALIZED NEEDS If you have specialized needs, this program can be modified. Please contact WISCO Computing at the mail address or BBS phone number listed on the front page of this documentation for rates. Computer Programs from: WISCO COMPUTING, P. O. 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