CSPro, short for the Census and Survey Processing System, is a

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data processing software package developed by the

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and

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. Serpro S.A. was involved in past development. Funding for development comes primarily from the

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. The main purpose of this

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is to design an application for data collection and processing. CSPro was designed and implemented through a joint effort by the developers of two earlier software packages that were used to capture, edit, and tabulate census and survey data on DOS-based machines: the Integrated Microcomputer Processing System (IMPS), developed by the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Integrated System for Survey Analysis (ISSA), developed by Serpro S.A. As a result, CSPro is founded on more than 30 years of development. The software can be run on Windows-based OS (Vista, 7, 8, and 10—

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and

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operating systems are not supported) to design applications able to be deployed on Android and Windows family OS following its "Build Once, Deploy Many" ability. These applications can be used for mobile

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(via Smartphones or tablets), or for office-based collection (via laptops or desktops). The public domain distribution is binary-only. Support for Unicode data entry began with version 5. A CSPro designed application can be a dynamic and intelligent questionnaire for entering, editing, tabulating, mapping, and disseminating

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data. Also, the simple IDE of the CSPro Designer can be used to implement sophisticated

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in various fields such as Monitoring and Evaluation, Business Administration, Logistics and so on. This package is widely used worldwide by statistical agencies, international organizations, NGOs, consulting firms, colleges and universities, hospitals, and private sector groups, in more than 160 countries. Major international household survey programs, such as

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(MICS) and

Demographic and Health Surveys The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is responsible for collecting and disseminating accurate, nationally representative data on health and population in developing countries. The project is implemented by ICF International and is funded ...

(DHS) also use CSPro for Census and Survey works. While the program uses a simple graphical interface ( IDE), CSPro also contains a sophisticated programming language that can be used to create highly customized applications. Beginning users can program simple quality control checks, and advanced users can write dynamic applications using his procedural and object oriented programming language. It remains actively in development (as of spring 2021). With latest improvements, CSPro designed application support: * SQLite and SQL language; * Relational database support on device and servers; * Improved data security through transparent data encryption and support of best in class hashing/salting algorithms; * Multiple questions per screen; * Mobile Mapping: Displaying dynamic mapping and deal with geographic informations (online maps, Tiled offline basemap and points (all features: polygon, polyline, line is supported on version 7.7)); * Introduction of Objects programming in CSPro logic; * CSS, HTML5, JavaScript via templated report, CAPI text, Webview/Webview 2 and CSPro-Javascript interface; * PHP through CSWeb; * Powerful and comprehensive

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for complete and intelligent monitoring of the data collection step; * Smart application installation using barcode/QR Code; * Multiple programming language improvements (smart synchronization (including on local Dropbox and

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, etc.)); The source code of the CSWeb API and the help system have been released to the public, but generally it is not open source. In addition to the help system disseminated with CSPro, an active users forum is maintained as well.

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