Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Database and data structure management
Reexamination Certificate
2009-06-05
2011-12-27
Lie, Angela (Department: 2163)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Database and data structure management
Reexamination Certificate
active
08086648
ABSTRACT:
An exemplary MMIC (“Multi-Mode Interviewing Capability”) survey program is a computerized tool that supports various traditional modes of collecting interview data, including telephone interviewing, written interviewing, and personal interviewing, and can be used to manage the whole interview process from questionnaire design, sample management, and fieldwork monitoring to final dataset production. The collected data may also include non-textual data from survey participants such as medical measurements of blood pressure and heart rate. Self-interviewing using the Internet is also possible which permits real time availability of results and the participation of respondents from virtually anywhere in the world, using devices such as PDA's, Smart phones and Web TV's. The MMIC survey structure is non-linear and object oriented, which permits a connection between all the building blocks of the survey to be defined on any level. The compiled survey includes sufficient metadata to facilitate decompilation and the production of equivalent source code in any supported programming language, whether or not it was originally programmed in that language. This stored metadata not only allows researchers to later trace back the exact conditions under which this particular answer was given, but also permits results from multiple iterations of the related surveys to be combined in a rigorous manner that will be transparent to subsequent analysis and research.
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Foley & Lardner
Lie Angela
The Rand Corporation
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