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Note: CAPI Administrator is deprecated. Please use CAPI Supervisor instead.
Note: Forsta Plus CAPI is a chargeable add-on. If your company has not licensed the CAPI add-on then the CAPI menus and associated options will not be available or visible in your Forsta Plus system.
Forsta CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) is built on the Forsta web-based platform. This enables the same advanced and sophisticated capabilities typical to online surveys to be used for offline face-to-face field work or for self-completion of the surveys. Multimedia elements such as advertising commercials, complex survey logic, advanced quota control and multilingual interviewing can be included in the surveys.
The platform is a 100% integrated application. CAPI users benefit from one common authoring environment that allows them to design surveys and manage projects and interview quotas, regardless of the data collection mode employed. Both CAPI and CAWI take advantage of Forsta Reportal.
As either an On-Demand hosted solution or a server installation, the platform provides centralized control of face-to-face field work. It allows the centralized distribution via the Internet of new and updated surveys to the CAPI enabled devices, and centralized sample management and communication with the interviewer workforce.
Interviewers connect to the Internet before commencing their field work, to synchronize new or updated surveys. They can reconnect during the field work or on completion to synchronize the response data with the central platform.
Forsta Plus enables businesses to conduct projects on both CAWI and CAPI using different samples running in parallel and thus increase their audience. Forsta Plus surveys and reports are designed and managed on the same integrated platform, enabling organizations to choose the preferred method of mixed mode data collection that best supports their particular business and/or methodology objectives.