Early Electronic Survey Form History

• Raosoft, Inc. introduced its first software for sale in November 1991, at the COMDEX Show in Las Vegas. At the suggestion of an agency of the U.S. federal government, Raosoft immediately began developing software for LAN and network email form distribution. In 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency sent out the first extensive online survey questionnaire ever performed in the U.S.
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  "EPA workers rate their bosses on line."
  
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• In 1994 the U.S. Agency for International Development distributed the first online survey performed internationally. Since that time, innumerable survey projects have been conducted by various agencies.
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• The first very large worldwide survey was conducted by the Air Combat Command, U.S. Air Force in 1994.
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  "AF re-launches survey, using PCs & BBS"
  
  
• This was followed by the first electronic Air Force world-wide survey in 1995, sponsored by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
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  "AF conducts worldwide survey on-line"
  
  
• EZSurvey, published in 1997, began the Internet survey era. That same year, the Department of Veterans Affairs became one of the first power users of Web-based or Email surveys on the Internet. The Department of Transportation and the Internal Revenue Service followed in taking advantage of these extremely efficient new data collection capacities.
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  "VA office takes surveys online"
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• The corporate sector also began conducting Internet surveys early on in the Internet survey era.
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  "Surveying Made Simple"
  
  
• Certain of our earlier online customers such as the Department of Energy have been able to repeat projects, so that baselines and comparison studies are available.
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  "DOE lab gets results with Web-based survey"
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• Now, the U. S. Government utilizes uniquely powerful and innovative applications developed by Raosoft, Inc. The Department of Defense has exciting and productive new instruments available to them.
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  "Army schools automate surveys"
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  "Air Force study shifts jobs"
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• Probably the largest online web-based survey in the world is conducted every two years by the U.S. Air Force through its biennial worldwide Organizational Climate questionnaire. This project was initiated by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force for the purpose of measuring and improving personnel morale. The latest survey was distributed by the web in September, 2003.
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  "AF Web survey draws comments..."
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  "Web helps ease AF workload"
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