One Survey Specification. Many Outputs.

Visual Survey Designer

Build surveys with an intuitive user experience. No programming experience required.

Question Banks

Use questions and sequences of questions from question banks and central repositories.

Multiple Outputs

From a single specification, generate PDF specifications, paper forms, Blaise 5 data capture instruments, and standardized XML.

Rapid Design Iterations

Make changes to a survey and test the results in minutes, not days. Get feedback from colleagues. No more exchanging Word documents with inconsistent formatting and information.

Standards Support

Export your data documentation to an XML file in the DDI metadata format, the standard for data documentation. Open and edit it from Colectica Designer or other DDI applications.

Link Data to Questions

Colectica also lets you document the data files that result from your surveys. Connect variable descriptions to source questions to provide full data lineage for researchers.

Review Routing

See the whole survey flow as a graph, one column per section, with every condition connected to the answers it depends on. Broken and unreachable items are flagged so mistakes are found before fielding.

Version History and Comparison

Every published version of a survey is kept. Compare any two versions to see what was added, removed, modified, or moved, with word-level differences in question text.

Comment and Resolve

Discuss individual questions and sections with colleagues in comment threads shared through Colectica Repository. Resolve threads when the discussion is settled.

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