This is the latest update for the download of upcoming version of Statistical Software for Social Science (SPSS). The survey was intended to know SPSS users' opinion to augment lacking features and error logs from SPSS7 for marketing, business, education, psychology, and other areas that need to have this kind of service purposes. The SPSS 18 product launch survey were the following:

* Sources of Data (in-person surveys, online survey, etc)
* Import Data Formats (SPSS data files, Excel, CSV, database)
* Average number of variables in the file
* Average number of rows in the file
* Other SPSS products used in conjunction with SPSS Statistics 17
* Menu/Dialog use vs. Syntax
* Use of advance programming features (Python, R, .Net)

Last question offers a list of possible new features for SPSS Statistics 18.0:

* Additional enhancements to programmability
* Improvements to charts and graphs
* Better tools for automatic data preparation (auto transformations)
* Continued development of the customer dialog builder
* Additional enhancements to the Syntax Editor
* Campaign/Direct Marketing Tools (e.g., customer lifetime value)
* Enhanced integration with other SPSS applications
* Updates to existing procedures (e.g., add updated analytics & options)
* Continued enhancements to multiple imputation procedure
* Interactive tools for viewing, exploring, and manipulating output from predictive models


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