Sensus lets you create simple to CATI-like questionnaires

Sensus Web uses the same questionnaire scripting language as Sawtooth Software’s Ci3 system. This scripting language is used by more research organizations than any other and is the same language that works with our WinCati system. It lets you create simple questionnaires easily and yet it is flexible enough for even the most complex of surveys. Because of its flexibility, Sensus Web lets you administer CATI-like questionnaires on the Web without the need for HTML or Java programmers.

Sensus Web can handle all common question types, such as single response, multiple response, numeric, open-end, and constant sum. Branching can be as complex as you like; you can skip based on previous responses, combinations of responses, and even arithmetical computations. Sensus Web lets you restore responses to questions in later questions, so you can customize interviews to enhance respondent interest. You can create scroll down or scroll across screens of any size. You can place multiple questions and input fields on the screen so respondents can fill in responses in any order. You can include drop-down lists, radio buttons and check boxes.

With Sensus Web, you have complete control over screen formatting for your questionnaire: you can place question and response text anywhere on the screen and use color and type fonts to guide respondents.

In addition to basic capabilities, Sensus Web has special features designed for researchers with advanced needs.

Sensus Web’ powerful list handling capabilities let you ask questions repetitively with minimal setup. You can construct customized lists of any length for each respondent based on previous answers and then ask additional questions for that list. You can use this capability to ask roster or grid questions.

Sensus Web provides other advanced capabilities as well. You can randomize choices within questions, questions within blocks of questions, and blocks of questions within questionnaires. You can create and administer multilingual studies. You can write macros to create your own custom instructions that you can use throughout a questionnaire. And you can incorporate sound bytes and images as part of the interview as well.

Sensus Web also lets you access other Web pages in the middle of a questionnaire. This capability can be used, for example, to conduct advanced research studies such as conjoint analysis studies using Sawtooth Software’s ACA System for Adaptive Conjoint Analysis or CBC System for Choice-Based Conjoint.

Sensus Web lets you insert or delete questions with little or no modification to your branching and skipping instructions. You can specify defaults for many of the instructions that govern questionnaire presentation and logic. For example, you need only specify text placement, screen color, answer ranges, and key assignments once. Of course, you can override these defaults at any time.