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Survey Solutions is a survey management and data collection system developed by the World Bank. The software is used worldwide by the National Statistical Offices, Central Banks, Non-Government Organizations and universities to collect and manage surveys of households, individuals, enterprises (firms/establishments), infrastructure (schools, hospitals, etc) and communities. It has been used to conduct censuses, household income and expenditure surveys, labor force surveys, price surveys, and other types of data collection operations.
Comprehensive documentation is available at https://docs.mysurvey.solutions. Deployment instructions for production instances can be also found there. To see the history of previous releases please take a look at our release notes.
This repository contains source code for the following major components of Survey solutions:
- Designer - place for designing questionnaires. Supports sharing and collaboration between authors of questionnaires.
- Web Tester - application used to quickly test questionnaires using web browser. Supports recording of scenarios to ease testing of large questionnaires.
- Headquarters - used for survey management and data collection. Surveys as central storage of collected interviews for both CAPI and CAWI modes.
- Export service - backend service that has no UI. Used by Headquarters application to generate export files. Supports exporting to various statistical packages.
- Interviewer - data collection tool used by field workers to conduct interviews.
- Supervisor - can be used as temporary storage of interviews in the areas where there is no internet connectivity. Allows to receive interviews and distribute work for interviewers with nearby communication.
- Tester - same as interviewer application, but works directly with Designer application. Should be used to verify performance and usability of questionnaire during design time.
All contributions, bug reports, documentation improvements, helping with translations, and new feature ideas are welcome.
If you are interested in making modifications to the code, please take a look at local building and development environment description in the contributing file.
Please reach out to the team first to discuss your ideas if you think that you'd like to contribute your changes and/or additions to the product.
Please read our security guide on how we protect your survey data, or if you wish to report a security issue.