Colectica

Colectica is a suite of programs for use in documenting official statistics and specifying statistical surveys using open standards that enable researchers, archivists, and programmers to perform:

• questionnaire design
• automatic programming for computer-assisted telephone interviewing systems
• data entry, retrieval, and management
• statistical analysis
• microdata documentation and management
• applications development
• data warehousing
• metadata standards creation such as Data Documentation Initiative

Colectica is currently in use by a variety of university survey research groups, longitudinal studies, National Statistics Offices, data archives, and commercial survey research organizations.