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Abstract #301321

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Activity Number: 387
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301321
Title: The NASS Question Repository System
Author(s): Daniel Beckler*+
Companies: National Agricultural Statistics Service
Address: USDA, Room 305, Fairfax, VA, 22030,
Keywords: web data collection ; questionnaire design ; form generation
Abstract:

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys annually on the nation's farmers and agribusinesses. For most surveys, multiple questionnaire versions are needed to address differences in agriculture between states. The questionnaires also need to be developed for multiple data collection modes: mail, telephone/CATI, and most recently the World Wide Web. In order to efficiently create the numerous questionnaires needed for all of the survey, state, and mode combinations, NASS developed a client-server based Question Repository System (QRS). The QRS includes a user interface to build properly formatted questions for the various modes; these questions are then stored in a central database. The stored questions may be retrieved and used to build questionnaires, which can be saved, printed or ported to a Web server. This paper describes the capabilities and some technical details of the QRS.

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