Creating a new project

When you create a new project, you define what type of project it is, give it a name and description, specify a customer account, and define who may work on it. You may also place the project in a folder of similar or related projects — for example, in a folder of projects for a particular customer, or in a folder of projects to do with a particular topic.

Note: Folders are a visual management tool only. Placing a project in a folder does not create a subfolder in your projects folder on the disk.

There are two types of projects:

• Interviewer Server. These are projects for which you will be using IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Interviewer Server to gather data. (Interviewer Server includes tools for building the questionnaire, running test interviews, and viewing topline tables.) If you also have IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Survey Tabulation, you can use Survey Tabulation to analyze the survey data that you collect using Interviewer Server.

• Analyze existing data. These are projects for which you want to use Survey Tabulation to perform in-depth analysis of survey data after it has been collected (for example, using another data collection tool). The data can be in any format supported by the IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Data Model.

The instructions for setting up the Interviewer Server and analysis projects are given separately, because the procedures are somewhat different.