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Mobile Data Collection using CSPro for android

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Development of CAPI mobile data collection tools using CSPro

Outline

Day 1

Welcome and introductions
- CSPro Overview; Review of dictionary and forms

- Introduction to the example questionnaire

- Rapid review of the data dictionary

- Records, items, sub-items

- Multiply occurring records and items

- Value sets

- Structure of the data file

- Dictionary macros and working with Excel

- Creating data entry forms

- Rosters and multiplying occurring forms, roster control fields

- Capture types

- Multiple response questions (checkboxes)

- Running data entry applications on Android

- Differences between Windows and Android

- Lab work: create a few records and form from example questionnaire and run it on Android

 

Day 2 

Skips and prefills

- Conditional statements (if then else)

- Skips, Skip to next, endgroup, endlevel

- Preproc, postproc

- Auto fills (protected fields)

- Add mode and modify mode

- Questions with “other-specify”

- Lab work: add skips to sample application

Consistency checks
            
Error messages, errmsg with select

Edit checks with multiple variables

Hard and soft checks (reenter)

Loops, subscripts

Blanks, notappl and missing

Lab work: add consistency checks to sample application

 

Day 3

More logic: Consistency checks on rosters

- Rosters and subscripts: consistency checks across rosters

- Non-dictionary variables, proc global

- Order of procs (level, group, variable)

- Loops

-Lab work: add consistency checks to rosters in sample application

CAPI Features

- CAPI text, fonts, colors

- Fills in CAPI text

- Supporting multiple languages

- Occurrence labels – getocclabel()

- Dynamic value sets (setvalueset), onfocus

- Cascading questions

Lab work: Add CAPI text and dynamic value sets to sample application


Day 4

Advanced Data Entry Topics

- Lookup files

- User defined functions

- Adding userbar buttons for navigation

- Going back to skipped fields

- Skip, advance and move

- Visual value and looking ahead

- Show and show array

Lab work: use lookup files for consistency checks and dynamic value sets in sample application, add navigation menu to sample application

Multimedia and external files

- Launching external programs with execsystem

- Viewing webpages

- Taking and viewing photos

- Capturing and displaying GPS points

- Creating and writing files using filewrite

- Generating and viewing reports in text and HTML

- Viewing GPS points in Google Earth

Lab work: Creating a listing application that captures photos and GPS coordinates


Day 5

Data transfer and synchronization

- Synchronization with FTP and Dropbox

- Peer to peer synchronization in the field

- Synchronization from logic

- Concatenating and checking data on the server

Lab work: synchronization

Batch Edit and Export

- Using batch edit for post collection checks

- Using batch edit to add recoded variables

- Export data to Excel, SPSS, STATA, R

 

Lab work: export data and batch edit

 

- CSPro Overview; Review of dictionary and forms

- Introduction to the example questionnaire

- Rapid review of the data dictionary

- Records, items, sub-items

- Multiply occurring records and items

- Value sets

- Structure of the data file

- Dictionary macros and working with Excel

- Creating data entry forms

- Rosters and multiplying occurring forms, roster control fields

- Capture types

- Multiple response questions (checkboxes)

- Running data entry applications on Android

- Differences between Windows and Android

- Lab work: create a few records and form from example questionnaire and run it on Android

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