Colectica

Colectica is a suite of programs for use in managing official statistics and statistical surveys using open standards that enable researchers, archivists, and programmers to perform:

• questionnaire design
• automatic programming for computer-assisted telephone interviewing systems
• data entry, retrieval, and management
• statistical analysis
• microdata documentation and management
• applications development
• data warehousing
• metadata standards creation such as Data Documentation Initiative

Colectica is currently in use by a variety of University survey centers, National Statistics Offices, and Data archives ^[1] .

History

Colectica was originally funded in part by the NIH National Institute on Aging to explore automatic documentation of computer assisted surveys.^[2] This grant saw the creation of metadata extraction and flowchart creation tools for CASES, Blaise, and CSPro survey instrument source code. The functionality of these tools, originally named SurveyViz, is now bundled with the Colectica Designer.

See also

• Data Documentation Initiative
• Official statistics

External links

• Colectica webpage

References