Originally Posted by
The Historian
OK. What does "join me" mean? In other words, how much work need I do? :-)
It would be a MAJOR project involving building a database with the info from each of the 7 questions, categorizing each response, organizing the results, developing "reports" using a variety of cross references, i.e., "age" vs "mileage per year" or whatever, and pulling an article or various articles from all of the compiled data and then writing it in an interesting magazine-like way.
Here is the entry form for a database I developed for the report mentioned above. It would be something similar to this, only a lot simpler. Much of this is done by cutting and pasting the various discrete responses into the database entry form. It is a bit difficult because some percentage of folks didn't give their age, and some did not follow the format in entering their responses, or respond to every question, or responded to questions that were not asked. But all of that can be handled one way or another.
Here are some of the reports which we ran offf of this database. Actually, while not shown, these reports were run for each of the age classifications and county classifications, etc. In total, there were about 150 retrieve specifications for each of the 8 reports.
Last edited by DnvrFox; 12-13-07 at 08:03 AM.