Large Scale Survey Research

This paper will discuss how CSPro (Census and Survey Processing System) and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) coped with data processing system in a complex large scale survey. A recent large scale surveys used the CSPro package and SPSS for data entry fact sheet and tabulation generation for the survey. The paper will discuss the outcomes of using CSPro and data processing system methods in a large scale survey. It is suggested that the use of CSPro and SPSS has achieved a better data quality than other data processing packages would have. The use of CSPro has a number of distinguished advantages, such as improvements in data quality and turnaround times. It will critically review how the quantitative method worked in this specific situation before placing the discussion in its wider data processing system methods and research environment in Nigeria.

Keywords: Census Survey Processing (CSpro), SPSS, Data Quality, large surveys.

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