Questionnaire Programs for Portable Computers

Abstract

Portable battery-powered computers have made it possible to collect questionnnaire data directly from the respondent into a data file. While individual questionnaires can be presented to respondents using a specially-written BASIC program for each questionnaire, a general questionnaire generation, editing and presentation package would be of more use. Such a package is described for the TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer. Three programs perform the three functions of generation, editing and presentation, with data files being generated to store all results. A simple example of the use of this package is described.