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List of software sponsored by National Statistical Offices
| Name of the application | CSPro - Census and Survey Processing System |
| Sponsor | United States Census Bureau |
| Description | CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System) is a public-domain software package for entering, editing, tabulating and mapping census and survey data.
CSPro was designed and implemented through a joint effort among the developers of IMPS and ISSA: the United States Census Bureau, Macro International, and Serpro, S.A. Funding for the development is provided by the Office of Population of the United States Agency for International Development. CSPro is designed to eventually replace both IMPS and ISSA.
CSPro combines and expands upon the capabilities of both ISSA and IMPS. It takes advantage of the power and flexibility of both of these programs, but adds the friendliness, ease of use, and intuitive nature of Windows. CSPro provides a more visual approach to the creation and manipulation of data and reduces the programming needs. This easy to use package facilitates defining data structures, developing applications, entering and checking data, generating reports, and producing tabulations. More advanced users, including computer programmers, can access the full CSPro language to perform complicated tasks.
CSPro consists of modules for Data Entry, Batch Editing and Processing, and Cross Tabulation, as well as Designer modules for creating Data Dictionaries and Data Entry Forms, and for writing applications. It also includes a set of tools, including Text Viewer, Table Viewer, Map Viewer, Table Retrieval, Tabulate Frequencies, Sort Data, Export Data, Reformat Data, Compare Data, Convert Dictionary, and Convert Shape to Map. |
| Natural language | English |
| Development status | Production/Stable |
| Distribution license | Public-domain software package |
| Available support | Users of CSPro can address questions and comments to the CSPro customer support team. The support team consists of CSPro developers and expert in-house users of CSPro. Requests are generally answered within 24 hours. |
| Contact/Web address | http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/cspro/ |
| Name of the application | Blaise |
| Sponsor | Statistics Netherlands |
| Description | Blaise® is a powerful and flexible system used for computer-assisted survey processing. Blaise® can perform Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), Personal Interviewing (CAPI), Self-Interviewing (CASI) and WEB interviewing (CAWI), interactive editing, high-speed data entry, and data manipulation and has full survey management capabilities. Direct communication with external databases (reading and writing) is possible with OLE-DB technology. Blaise Component Pack enables you to create your own programs that use COM technology to address Blaise meta and Blaise data files. With Blaise® you can perform various activities in an easy and user-friendly way.
Blaise® is used worldwide by many organisations. These organisations conduct a wide variety of surveys such as labour force surveys, consumer price surveys, multilevel rostering household surveys, panel surveys, business and economic surveys, institutional surveys, health surveys, energy surveys, environment surveys, agricultural surveys, and programs of related surveys.
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| Natural language | English |
| Development status | Production/Stable |
| Distribution license | For fee licensing available from Statistics Netherlands or Westat (for US and Canada) |
| Available support | Users of Blaise can address questions and comments to the Blaise support at Statistics Netherlands or Westat (for US and Canada). The International Blaise User's Group and discussion site can be contacted via the Blaise WEB site. The user's group, in conjunction with Statistics Netherlands and a host country, organizes a Blaise User's Conference every 18 months. |
| Contact/Web address | http://www.cbs.nl/en/service/blaise/introduction.htm |
| Name of the application | PC-Axis |
| Sponsor | Statistics Sweden |
| Description | PC-Axis is a suite of software created to serve as a platform for coherent, efficient, and user-friendly dissemination of official statistics. It is ideal for national statistical offices and other organisations engaged in dissemination of social and economic statistics. The suite supports the whole specter of dissemination products: Comprehensive on-line databases, off-line electronic products like CD-ROM’s, and publications on paper or on the web. The PC-Axis software family is the result of a long tradition of statistics dissemination in machine readable form from Statistics Sweden and other statistical offices in the Nordic countries. The development emerges from the thesis from the early 70sby Dr. Bo Sundgren concerning the use of many-dimensional matrices in output databases. These ideas were first implemented in the mainframe system Axis used since the beginning of 80sfor commercial databanks at Statistics Sweden and from the mid 80sat Statistics Denmark for the same purpose. For the 1990 Swedish Population Census PC-Axis was developed, to be used by the main users of the results from the Population Census. The PC-Axis file format is a file format in plain ASCII that mirrors the ideas used in the Axis system. This file format is metadata rich. From 1997 the same ideas are implemented in a relational output database that supersedes the Axis system. |
| Natural language | English and other EU languages can be translated to any language |
| Development status | Production/Stable |
| Distribution license | Low license fee (to cover maintenance and support) |
| Available support | Users of PC-Axis can address questions and comments to the PC-Axis support team. There are annual meetings for the users of PC-Axis family where technical and substantive issues discussed. |
| Contact/Web address | lars.nordback@scb.se http://www.pc-axis.scb.se/ |
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