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^^CROSS\\ 


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^THE ^^CROSS\\ PACKAGE OF PROGRAMS FOR SURVEY ANALYSIS, MODELED IN
PART AFTER ^DARTMOUTH'S PROJECT ^^IMPRESS\\, WAS DEVELOPED IN 1972 AT
^WHEATON ^COLLEGE IN ^NORTON, ^MASS.
^THE PACKAGE CONSISTS OF FIVE
PRIMARY PROGRAMS (^^SURVEY, SORTER, CROSS, MERGE, AND UNITE\\) AND
THREE SECONDARY ONES (^^CROSS\\1, ^^CROSS\\2, AND ^^XTAB\\), ALL WRITTEN IN
^^FORTRAN IV\\ TO BE RUN ON A ^^DEC\\SYSTEM-10 TIME-SHARING SYSTEM.


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^THE PROGRAM SURVEY READS CODED RESPONSES TO A QUESTIONNAIRE AND
WRITES THEM INTO AN ^^ASCII\\ DATA FILE.


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^THE PROGRAM ^^SORTER\\ TABULATES THE CODED RESPONSES TO EACH
QUESTION OF A QUESTIONNAIRE BY FREQUENCIES OR PERCENTAGES OR BOTH.


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^THE PROGRAM ^^CROSS\\ CORRELATES RESPONSES TO SELECTED QUESTIONS OF
A QUESTIONNAIRE TO GIVE MARGINAL FREQUENCIES, CROSS-TABULATIONS,
AND OTHER STATISTICS AND PERMITS THE COLLAPSING OF TABLES AND
THE COMBINING OF VARIABLES.


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^THE PROGRAM ^^MERGE\\ COMBINES UP TO 64 FILES OF RESPONSES TO THE
SAME QUESTIONS BY DIFFERENT RESPONDENTS.


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^THE PROGRAM ^^UNITE\\ COMBINES TWO FILES OF RESPONSES TO DIFFERENT
QUESTIONS BY THE SAME RESPONDENTS.


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^THE DATA ANALYSIS PART OF THE PROGRAM ^^CROSS\\ IS AVAILABLE SEPAR-
ATELY AS THE PROGRAM ^^CROSS\\1.
^THE DATA MANIPULATION PART CAN BE
RUN SEPARATELY AS THE PROGRAM ^^CROSS\\2.


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^THE PROGRAM ^^XTAB\\ CROSS-TABULATES PAIRS OF VARIABLES (WITH OR
WITHOUT A CONTROL VARIABLE) GIVING FREQUENCIES, PERCENTAGES, OR
OTHER STATISTICS DESIRED BY THE USER.
^DATA ARE ENTERED BY THE
USER INSTEAD OF BEING READ FROM A FILE.

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