MERLIN is a comprehensive software package for survey analysis and tabulation. It has been continually developed for over 30 years, and is now one of the best-known and most widely-used packages of its kind.
MERLIN is a language based product, aimed at the professional survey analyst. We recommend MERLIN for people who will spend at least 50% of their time using it, in order that they will be able to develop and retain skills in the use of this language; for those processing data on a less frequent basis, we recommend MERLINPLUS.
MERLIN is an ideal replacement for Quantum
Key Features
- data editing and listing
- cross tabulation with full labelling
- full and partial table manipulation
- many statistical functions including significance tests and correlations
- weighting including rims and/or targets, single or multi-stage
- tables export to Word / Acrobat / Excel / TabsML (preferred export for E-Tabs)
- inputs / outputs ASCII, column binary, CSV, or Excel data
- UTF-8 encoding supported in both labels and data
- includes the “pre-processor” – a powerful macro system for handling any type of repetitive specification
- processing of hierarchical (master / trailer) data structures
- merging dis-aggregated and / or aggregated data from different surveys
- ability to re-run tables to change text and formatting, without re-reading the data
- spellchecking
- hundreds of formatting options
- MERLIN Toolkit and MTWA included free
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