We have software that enables interviews to be conducted directly into PDA's (Windows or Palm operating systems).
The applications are extremely easy to use & provide all of the functionality normally required in research projects - for example:
- recording the start & end time per interview (enabling the calculation of average interview time), place of interview & the interviewers name;
- tree based questionnaires where the response to a question determines the question that follows;
- single or multiple response drop lists or manual entry responses;
- imported variables (the response to a question being incorporated into a subsequent question);
- generating output files that contain actual responses or numbers that represent specific responses; &
- a process to deal with the termination of an interview before it is completed.
The output files generated by this software are in CSV format which is compatible with all statistical research reporting packages & is easily converted to spreadsheet format.