You stop handing over a file. You hand over the book.
Survey Coder codes your open ends and now produces the tab book too: banners, bases, nets and 95% significance, in an Excel your client can read without you in the room.
The problem is not the coding. It is the handover.
An agency workflow has a seam in the middle: someone codes the open ends, hands over a file, and the processing team rebuilds it to tabulate. That rebuild is where two days go, and where the codeframe and the tables stop agreeing with each other.
When coding and tabulation live in one pipeline there is no file to hand over. The codes you approved are literally the rows of your tables — there is no second interpretation of anything.
One pass
1. You upload the file
Your .sav, .xlsx or .csv, in the shape it already has. Nothing to prepare for us.
2. We code the open ends
Against your codeframe if you have one, or generating it and putting it through your review if you do not.
3. The tab book comes out
Your banner applied to every question, with bases, nets and significance letters.
Every sheet declares its universe
A tab book is defensible or it is not the moment a client asks where a number came from. So every sheet prints the whole chain: who answered, who did not, and how many people each percentage was computed on.
Q_22_1: Thinking about your experience... Base (N) 10 5 40.0% 6 20.0% 7 - Extremely satisfied 40.0% No answer 75 ← Total respondents 85 ←
Look at that 40% "extremely satisfied". It reads like a headline. It is 4 people out of 85, because 75 were never asked the question. Before this the sheet said only "Base 10", and that real incidence had to be dug out of the .sav.
Grid sheets print their base too — one row per item, because each item has its own. And in weighted books the top and bottom boxes are computed with the weight, exactly like the mean: two different rules for the same column is the error nobody catches in time.
What the book contains
- One sheet per question, with your banner and its column legend.
- Declared bases: who answered, who did not, and the total sample.
- 95% significance testing in letter notation, suppressed below base 30.
- Automatic nets on scales (Top 2 Box, Bottom 2 Box) and means where they are legal.
- Weighting applied consistently across percentages, means and nets.
Frequently asked questions
Try it on one wave
The honest way to evaluate it is with a study of your own, comparing the book that comes out against the one you deliver today.