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I wasn't sure if you were saying SurveyMonkey is missing SPSS export - it supports exporting to SPSS AFAIK. Is it that the export is missing data or features for your needs?

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It has them - the features for naming every individual choice, specifying labels, and otherwise tweaking that output in SurveyGizmo are much stronger. This isn't a dealbreaker, but makes archiving past analysis, reports, and data files easier and more descriptive than e.g. "Q1_2". It also makes it a bit nicer if you don't have to do the renaming downstream, since it just avoids another step where you can introduce errors. SurveyGizmo also has some features specifically for R, though I haven't used R yet.

Long term, the whole survey industry should probably move away from SPSS to something fully open source, with a file type that is truly standard that can be read into all the different systems.

PS - I know that there are APIs for individual questions, data, etc. But, as an analyst first and programmer much much later on my list, I find them too complex to really be worth it. A lot of survey analysis is one-off.

I'd love a pandas/numpy/python call that just looked like:

get_survey_as_dataframe (surveyID, API_key, any other stuff).

Aha! Got it, that’s good feedback.

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