CCOUNT For Linux

CCOUNT is a free software package for market research and marketing research data cleaning, manipulation, data weighting, cross tabulation and data analysis.

Similar to, and uses the same syntax and data format as SPSS-MR "Quantum"*, a well known commercial package for processing market research survey data.

CCOUNT is a non-GUI, console based application and is distributed under the terms of our Freeware License. CCOUNT is an ongoing project and not a finished product in any sense. We may upgrade it from time to time and post new releases.

Here are some key features of "CCOUNT":

� Processing ASCII or multipunch/multicoded data files with fixed or variable record length of up to 99,999 bytes � Processing flat ASCII files, card type files and trailer card files � Handles singlecodes, multicodes, character strings, numerical real or integer values � Checks validity of answers and logic � Corrects, edits and recodes records by users instructions � Supports interactive record by record correction of data files or corrections by a 'corrfile' � Reports of selected records and/or fields � Reports of records in error � Creates holecounts and numeric/alphanumeric distributions � Creates standard marketing research cross tables � Data weighting with rim weighting (IPF, Iterative Proportional Fitting), target (cell) and factor weighting methods � Accepts weighting target values as absolutes or proportions (percents) and supports household level transformation � Writes new data files with or without weights assigned � Writes out data files with just ID's and weights for further processing with SPSS or other MR packages � Counts weighted cross tables, weighted holecounts and weighted frequency distributions � User definable table output with any combination of absolute figures, column, row and total percentages � User definable filters for ranges of tables, single tables, axis and axis elements � Control of position of titles, question text and numbers � Access to lookup files (fetch files) � Tabulates and processes hierarchical data files � Nets, subnets � Calculates means, standard deviations, standard errors, subtotals, etc. � Tables under full control of user � Exports semicolon delimited tables for EXCEL import � Exports html tables for web presentation � Supports subroutines and inline C code in data edit section � Allows programming of data entry executables with Quantum* like syntax � Contains a tool (ccrw) to convert CCOUNT/Quantum*, IBM 360 Column Binary, EBCDIC and ASCII data � and more...

What's New in This Release:

� text and column substitutions in edit include files are now resolved in out2 and sum_. � a problem with text and column substitutions in do-loops within include files fixed. � the run command in ccbatch is now able to process the ccout table output standard options. � a minor problem with removing ccroute.dup (for ccbatch) fixed (DOS only). � indent= command (indent folded axis element texts) added. � the weighting program "ccweight" is now linked static for compatibility issues (Linux only). � a signed/unsigned variable mismatch in ccaccum fixed. � #def / *def command (assigning global values to symbolic parameters) added. � a bug when using variables with consecutive n00 or flt statements fixed