DEVICE FOR THE INPUT AND APPROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL INFORMATION Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: sociological investigations. SUBSTANCE: effect is achieved by the automatization of the input and data processing in the form of memory unit addresses corresponding to the numbers of the questionnaire items chosen by respondents and the accumulation at these addresses of the figures reflecting the number of the alike answers to all the questionnaire items in several files of the respondent questionnaires with set social characteristics. The device represents itself a portable instrument or a specialized microcalculator for a sociologist allowing in a number of cases to do without an electronic computer when obtaining results in the course of inquiry. The device has information input unit 6, address former 10, indicator 15, memory unit 11, number former 14, counter 17. EFFECT: simplification and enhanced efficiency of the input and approximate analysis of the sociological information. 2 cl, 2 dwg