mthorn

Thank you for the responses. As it happens I do know HTML. I write mostly by hand, but also with the help of PageSpinner, Dreamweaver, and the W3C's validation service. I don't know beans about Java or XML, but my HTML (to be specific, XHTML 1.0 Transitional) is current and clean as a whistle, for what it's worth. (If you want to check it out for yourself, take a look at www.matt-thorn.com ) I've never used Instant Publishing, and probably won't, since I doubt it produces clean HTML. I've downloaded the CDML files you recommended and will begin studying. Thanks again!

It worked! Thank you very much. Bob. Now does anyone have any advice on how I can make it calculate and display each figure as a percentage as a whole? For example, following Bob's advice I got the following output: "Almost everday" 88 "Several times a week" 226 "Once a week" 91 "Once a month" 51 "Rarely" 56 "No response." 2 I wonder if I can get it to give me: "Almost everday" 88 (17.1%) "Several times a week" 226 (44.0%) "Once a week" 91(17.7%) "Once a month" 51 (9.9%) "Rarely" 56(10.9%) "No response." 2 (0.4%)

I appreciate the offer, but unfortunately my budget is zero, and the whole thing has to be done in Japanese.

I want to conduct a web survey, and import responses into a database as automatically as possible. I don't see anything in the documentation about soliciting data through the web. I'm thinking there must be some way to use standard HTML forms, in which mail is sent to me each time a respondent submits data, and automatically (?) have that data imported into my database. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! (By the way, I know that Dragon Web Surveys can do all this, but I took one look at the price and could only laugh. It's obviously targeted at corporations, and I'm just a poor social scientist.)

I'm such a newbie, I don't even know if I'm posting this question in the right forum. I scoured the documentation and the web for a solution, and have dissected every file I could get my hands, but to no avail. I conducted a survey (in meatspace, on paper) and have made a Filemaker file with a record for each respondent. I need to summarize responses to multiple-choice questions, e.g. the number of respondents who chose "B" in a given question, and what percentage of all the responses that represents. This is easy to do if you want to get an average for a numerical value, but how do I do this with non-numerical values? Here's a real specific example. This was a survey of about 750 Japanese high school students about their comic-book reading practices. One question is "How often do you read comics?" In my Filemaker file, I created a a text field that is a pop-up field with 6 values: "Almost everday," "Several times a week," "Once a week," "Once a month," "Rarely," and "No response." I'd like to create a layout that summarizes the data in all the records. It would be even better if I could create separate summaries by sex, age, et cetera. Do I do this with a calculation? With a script? Any help would be enormously appreciated. Thanks in advance! [ September 07, 2001: Message edited by: Matt Thorn ]