Accumulate CAPI Data Files

This dialog lets you select the folder that contains the .dat files that were delivered to you (for example, from the data collection facility). Any and all .dat files are accumulated into your project from that folder and all its sub-folders.

For example, let's assume your main SSI Web study (studyname: 0893) is located in a folder named Auto0893. Further let's assume you have created three CAPI packages for interviewing: 0893_1.CAPI, 0893_2.CAPI, and 0893_3.CAPI.

The data collection site has interviewed using three PCs and delivered three separate .dat files to you via email: 0893_1.dat, 0893_2.dat, and 0893_3.dat. You place these three files in a folder (perhaps a sub-folder from your main Auto0893 folder) called Auto0893 CAPI Data:

   Auto0893

(Contains SSI Web study files, including your final 0893dat.dat file, which is the one used in all export and data analysis functions in SSI Web.)

Auto0893 CAPI Data

0893_1.dat

0893_2.dat

0893_3.dat

During the Accumulate CAPI Data Files process, you'll select the Auto0893 CAPI Data folder, and all data files in that folder named 0893_?.dat will be accumulated and either append to or overwrite (based on your selection when prompted) the 0893dat.dat file in your Auto0893 folder.

Please note that the data files delivered to you from Web CAPI interviewing are cumulative data files, including all interviews conducted to date. Therefore, we suggest when you accumulate CAPI data files, that you accumulate all data over all CAPI files, overwriting any data in the current project file.