Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Obtaining GEIS
• 3 Demonstration Script
• 4 Installation
  • 4.1 Program Overview
  • 4.2 Data set locations
  • 4.3 System requirements
  • 4.4 Installation overview
  • 4.5 Network server installation
  • 4.6 Project creation
  • 4.7 Share server set up
  • 4.8 Interviewing workstation set up
  
  
• 5 GEIS libnames
• 6 GEIS Data Sets
  • 6.1 The Local Datasets
  
  
• 7 Running GEIS
  • 7.1 Project selection window
  • 7.2 Single workstation overview
  • 7.3 Multiple workstation overview
  
  
• 8 GEIS Scripts
  • 8.1 Script Overview
  • 8.2 Script Item Structure
  • 8.3 Answer Quoting
  • 8.4 Item Type Overview
  • 8.5 Self-Protection Statements
  • 8.6 Item Refusal Codes
  • 8.7 DO Loops
  • 8.8 Script Examples
  
  
• 9 Operational Matters
  • 9.1 Interview Status Codes
  • 9.2 Selection Control
  • 9.3 Analysis and Formats
  
  
• 10 Maintenance
  • 10.1 Recovering interviews
  • 10.2 Backing-up Data
  • 10.3 Adding, Amending, and Removing Cases
  • 10.4 Modifying the script once interviewing has begun
  • 10.5 Compiler Options
  
  
• 11 IVR
  • 11.1 Voice Recordings
  • 11.2 The Hybrid Method
  • 11.3 IVR Call Scheduling
  
  
• 12 GEIS files