| CCOUNT is a free package for market research
/ marketing research data cleaning, data weighting, manipulation, cross tabulation
and data analysis. Similar to, and uses the same syntax and
data format as SPSS-MR "Quantum*", a well known
commercial package for processing market research data. CCOUNT
is a non-GUI, console based application. The most important
features are:
- Processing ASCII or multipunch/multicoded data files with fixed or variable record length of up to 99,999 bytes
- Processing flat ASCII files, card type files and trailer card files
- Handles singlecodes, multicodes, character strings, numerical real or integer values
- Checks validity of answers and logic
- Corrects, edits and recodes records by users instructions
- Supports interactive record by record correction of data files or corrections by a 'corrfile'
- Reports of selected records and/or fields
- Reports of records in error
- Creates holecounts and numeric/alphanumeric distributions
- Creates standard marketing research cross tables
- Data weighting with rim weighting (IPF, Iterative Proportional Fitting), target (cell) and factor weighting methods
- Accepts weighting target values as absolutes or proportions (percents) and supports household level transformation
- Writes new data files with or without weights assigned
- Writes out data files with just ID's and weights for further processing with SPSS or other MR packages
- Counts weighted cross tables, weighted holecounts and weighted frequency distributions
- User definable table output with any combination of absolute figures, column, row and total percentages
- User definable filters for ranges of tables, single tables, axis and axis elements
- Control of position of titles, question text and numbers
- Access to lookup files (fetch files)
- Tabulates and processes hierarchical data files
- Nets, subnets
- Calculates means, standard deviations, standard errors, subtotals, etc.
- Tables under full control of user
- Exports semicolon delimited tables for EXCEL import
- Exports html tables for web presentation
- Supports subroutines and inline C code in data edit section
- Allows programming of data entry executables with Quantum* like syntax
- Contains a tool (ccrw) to convert CCOUNT/Quantum*, IBM 360 Column Binary, EBCDIC and ASCII data
- and more...
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