QUIP software was designed for cleaning, recoding and tabulating survey data, but its versatility makes it a powerful tool for verifying, manipulating or analyzing nearly any kind of data that is stored in, or can be exported to, a flat file.

The examples listed below demonstrate some ways in which QUIP software can be used to solve a variety of problems.

Unless otherwise noted, the specs provided in all examples will work with the free demo versions available from this web site. 

This simple QGEN spec file may be used to convert a mainframe line printer file for use with a PC printer.

These two QGEN spec files convert records with data on separate lines into fixed length records and back again. This allows programs that expect each record to be on a single line to work with data exported from certain statistical packages that read and write ASCII data as "cards."

This example demonstrates the use of QGEN to clean and recode a typical marketing research questionnaire with a product awareness, trial and usage grid coded as column binary data.

This example provides specs to use QTAB to adjust target weights when item non-response exists in a sample but was not accounted for in the target proportions.

This is an advanced example that illustrates how QUIP software was used to automate tabulation of an ongoing media study. Among other things, it features the use of QGEN as a program generator to create QTAB specs from a template. It also demonstrates how to use command line parameters and spec file includes in batch processing.