Welcome to the manual for this innovative program for Market Research.
This documentation is updated to version 22.2.2
When using the program press function key F1 to get relevant help.
See Companion suite for a description of the Companion programs and what they are for.
New Reflect (.qrfx) and old Reflect (.qrf) databases can be analysed with the main Companion program and the free to use Companion Reflect version 22.1 or above.
QPSMR Companion should be used instead of QPSMR Insight and QPSMR CATI. The licences for these programs include the same or better functionality in QPSMR Companion.
Fixed layout data files from other sources will increasingly be UTF-8 encoded. Open with Notepad (not WordPad) to check encoding. If UTF-8 then rename the extension to .uni (not .asc).
In the Reference Manual, Release information, see:
Some features for larger projects require an extended licence, see:
For QPSMR Classic program users (Insight, and CATI), please read:
Anyone can download the software and use the free facilities:
Format tables in Excel (OpenXML) produced by QPSMR CL and MRDCL
Analyse data with Tables setup and Drill down using a supplied Reflect database (qrf or qrfx)
Input data using a supplied Input file (qpsmrinp)
Check triple-s standard files
View and edit raw data files (character, binary, csv, spreadsheet, or xml)
Export project details
There are also the licence free Companion programs:
Companion Reflect which replaces QPSMR Reflect for end user analysis
Companion Input which replaces QPSMR Input for entering paper and CAPI surveys
The QPSMR Companion program:
Runs on Microsoft Windows 64 bit:
Windows 11
Windows 10
Windows 8 Pro (not RT)
Windows 7
Windows 32 bit versions are available on request.
Is written entirely in the C# language (pronounced "See Sharp") except for the CL engine which is written in C++.
Uses the .NET Framework (sometimes written as dotnet)
The Microsoft .NET Framework which is included with recent versions of Windows and can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/downloads, Developer tools.
Note: When running tables the preprocessor is built into the Companion; the remainder of tables production uses QPSMR CL which is still in C++ at the moment.
C# and the .NET Framework give the following benefits to the program:
robust
secure
future proof
easy to maintain
can be web enabled in the future
handles any language text
This introduction contains the following topics:
The remainder of the manual consists of:
The Reference Manual also contains a list of Internet web resources.