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Blaise Programming Information & Examples

Blaise is a questionnaire programming language developed by Statistics Netherlands.

Statistics Netherlands is the provider of Blaise Software.

Westat Inc. is the distributor and point of contact for Blaise in the United States of America.

Blaise provides a full range of questionnaire design software tools. The Blaise Contol Center alows programmes to manage: Function Keys, Menus, Questionnaire Features, Mode Library, Tools, and many other software features.

Maniplus can be used to build dialogue boxes for interaction with the Blaise databases.  This tool has access to the .bmi Blaise Meta Information and can help the user, tester, developer in many ways.

Manipula is the scripting language foro Blaise.  I has a lot of features which allow programmers access to control systems, DOS, and many other tools.  This is an excellent product to work with, versitile and easy to use and debug.  

The questionnaire design page shows many of the features of a Blaise data collectoin instrument.  This is intended as a primer for new clients and those unfamilier with what Blaise can do.

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