BlaiseIS at Statistics Netherlands

Gerrit de Bolster, IBUC, June 2009, Riga

– Infrastructure– Process steps

• Creating a CAWI questionnaire• Implementing the questionnaire• Adding respondents and data• Exploitation• Cleaning up

– Design documents for the generator– Future

Topics

BlaiseIS serverpark

Infrastructure for Internet Questionnaires

BlaiseIS serverpark

Internet

Content management system

Proxy server

Respondents & data

Statements

Questionnaires

Development Environment

Firewalls

Process stepsCreating a CAWI questionnaire (1)

– Task of questionnaire design department– Create the 2 design documents

• Input from surveygroup: oral, written, paper examples

• Create a Visio document with the flow• Create a Word document with the questions,

calculations, checks etc.

Process stepsCreating a CAWI questionnaire (2)

– Run the development environment (“BISmenu”)• Select a template• Generate Blaise source and other info using

the Word- and the Visio-document• Update the Internet specification file (.bis)

Criticalquestions Grouping

• Install the questionnaire on the local Webserver

Updating the Blaise menu file (.bmf) Updating the dataproperties (.bdp)

• Test it and improve the 2 design documents• Export the finished questionnaire

Process stepsImplementimg the questionnaire

– Task of the production department– Run the content management system (“MesDesk”)

• Create the meta (code, result folder, file type)• Add the questionnaire to the serverpark

Process stepsAdding respondents and data

– Task of the production department– Run the content management system

(“QuestManager”)• Create the meta (code, reporting period, action

dates, letter content)

• Import the sample file (respondents)

• Collect and store pre-populated files

• Add the sample and the data to the installed questionnaire in the serverpark

• Create the letter content with url and login info for the respondents

Process stepsExploitation

– Task of the production department– Run the content management system (“MesDesk”)

• The completed statements are collected on scheduled moments, archived and copied to the folders of the survey departments

Process stepsCleaning up

– Task of the production department– Run the content management system

(“QuestManager”)• The reporting period is closed according to the

registered action dates– Run the content management system (“MesDesk”)

• The last completed statements are collected, archived and copied to the folders of the survey departments

– Run the content management system (“QuestManager”)

• The reporting period is removed according to the registered action dates

Generator: design documents

– Visio 2003• Routing (conditional at all levels)• Behaviour (show/ask/critical)

– Word 2003• Questionnaire attributes• Libraries• Standard block references• Fields (Text/Type/Layout)• Conditional text imputations• Answer imputations• (Conditional) calculations• (Conditional) checks

Design documentsVisio 2003

– Graphical interface– Easy drawing and

editing– Embedded

information– Fixed set of shapes– Accessable through

object model

Design documentsWord 2003– Familiar– Easy text

manipulation & decoration

– Standard set of elements

– Accessablethroughobject model

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The future

– More table/question types– Upload facility– Using a database for questions– SQL-server on the data server– CAPI, CATI

Questions?