BLAISE

In the 1980s, CBS began adapting new technologies by developing Blaise®, a Computer-Assisted Interviewing (CAI) system and survey processing tool. The desire to make data editing more efficient resulted in a groundbreaking development. At first, Blaise introduced software for intelligent and interactive data entry and editing (also known as Computer-Assisted Data Input, CADI). Soon after, it established Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) and Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) as modes for collecting data. For the first time, statistical offices could use a structured language to describe a questionnaire's questions, answers, ranges, and consistency checks. With Blaise, they gained a tool to help them transition away from pure paper form surveying and towards the future of handheld devices... Today, Blaise is a software platform for data collection and survey processing specifically designed to handle government and scientific surveys. National Statistical..

Also known as: Statistics Netherlands

Primary location: Netherlands United States