Colectica Designer

Colectica Designer allows documenting data collection, survey specification, and dataset descriptions. It can be used with Colectica Repository in large organizations to provide advanced data management functionality. Colectica Designer complements existing systems by importing and generating various forms of data, documentation, and source code.

Manage Statistical Metadata

• Manage Statistical Studies - Track everything related to your study from start to finish
• Document and Disseminate Data - One canonical source of metadata, multiple outputs
• Manage Classifications - Create and re-use code lists
• Multilingual Support - work with multiple languages

Design Surveys and Questionnaires

• Manage Questions - Create, share, and re-use questions
• Design Questionnaires - Use an intuitive, visual questionnaire designer
• Analyze Questionnaires - Gain insight and detect mistakes before you field your survey
• Import Existing Survey Instruments - Already have a survey? No need to start from scratch
• Generate Computer-assisted Interviewing Source Code - No need to type questions twice: once in a specification and once in your CAI system
• Generate paper questionnaires - Create and print paper forms to gather data

Publish Documentation

• Create Dataset Documentation - Easily create electronic and paper codebooks
• Publish Metadata to the Web - Make your dataset documentation interactive and social
• Generate Statistical Source Sode - Make assigning variable and value labels simple in R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata

Import

• Import Metadata from Standard Formats
• Import Datasets

Export to Open Standards

• Export to Open Standards - Using Colectica means your data is open data. No vendor lock-in
• Work with DDI 3 the Easy Way - No need to wrestle with XML

Metadata Repository and Version Management

• Synchronize with Metadata Repositories - Smooth collaboration for small and large teams
• Search and Re-use Items from Metadata Repositories - Share your questions, code lists, variables, and anything else
• Manage Metadata Versions Automatically - Versioning just got easy

Security

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