export to SPSS; also printing open ended responses

[peter]

Hi. This is my first post. I'm a statistician with 10+ years experience, using
mainly SAS.

I'm trying to use the Report Manager feature of Ultimate Survey Enterprise .NET v3.0.6 - Web Survey Software to export data to SPSS. I'm not really sure what should be happening, but I don't think it's working properly.

When I export a survey in SPSS model with ASCII encoding, should a .sav file be generated? Instead, I am asked to save a comma delimited export.csv file.

This export.csv file is problematic in several ways:
(1) the variable names (Q1, Q2, etc.) do not match the questionnaire.
(2) There are no open ended responses,
(3) responses to questions with continuous numeric answers are not included as columns in the .csv file,
(4) there is no CASEID variable that would allow me to merge this file with other data.

Can you explain how the export to SPSS feature is intended to work?

How can I get the continuous numeric variables merged on to the analytic file?

Is there a convenient way to print out the full text of the open ended responses?

thanks for any help!!
Peter

[ncushing]

As you have noticed, the SPSS export produces a CSV file that is compatible with SPSS rather than an SPSS-specific file. We are in the process of trying to upgrade the SPSS export to take advantage of SPSS-specific files.

Regarding the questions not matching, we have a developer working on this issue, though I don't know what the ETA on the fix is yet.

-N

[LPBenefield]

I export 2 files. One in the SPSS compatible csv file. I use the SPSS Code Page to define my labels, etc.

The second file I export is the regular csv file, which I then use with a Word Processor and Mail Merge into a report. I can then, read and count types of responses and copy and paste quotes for examples.