This would be for 12,000 subjects, probably an interviewer administered questionnaire. Unless pre-testing suggests individuals can follow all the branches and triggers. I'm not wedded to BLAISE, but the AHQR specifically requested a review of this product and competitors. Personally, I'd prefer to build a new application around the survey..but that's me. :) Thanks for the quick response!!!!!! --JW Dmitri Williams wrote:

John-

I did some Blaise coding and part of the experimental design using it for a political communication project here at Michigan a couple of summers ago. We used it in a lab setting and had a very good experience. Can't beat the upsides of having Ss do the data entry. It's also a very flexible product, and you can insert AV stimuli in it. Some of the downsides are that the code is not particularly straightforward and that it wasn't designed to be a particularly user-friendly self administered product. Still, there are some decent ways around it with patience. There's a very big PDF manual online at www.westat.com/blaise/pdf/RefManual.pdf but it isn't particularly helpful or easy to use.

I can answer programming stuff off-list to the extent that I remember the details. Mostly, myself and one other grad student self-taught and did trial-and-error. The folks here at the Survey Research Center (part of the Michigan ISR) have expertise for hire, I believe. **************** Dmitri Williams Ph.D. Candidate University of Michigan Department of Communication Studies dcwillia@umich.edu