1992 CENSUS OF TRANSPORTATION
1992 TRUCK INVENTORY AND USE SURVEY


QUICKTAB and the 1992 TIUS MICRODATA FILE

=>What is QUICKTAB?

QUICKTAB is a module of the Integrated Microcomputer
Processing System (IMPS) used to quickly analyze the
contents of a data file.  Like other components of IMPS,
it requires that the file to be analyzed is described
through the IMPS Data Dictionary.  Both subject-matter
specialists and computer programmers can easily use
QUICKTAB.  There is no programming language to learn.
The system is entirely menu-driven and can be learned
in a matter of minutes. 


=>Common Uses of QUICKTAB

QUICKTAB can be used simply as a table-producing system
to analyze the contents of a survey or census file.  The
tables can be used in publications, if their format is
adequate, or they can be used as analysis tools.  QUICKTAB
produces two types of tables: frequency distributions and
cross-tabulations.  Cross-tabulations may be 2-way or 3-way.
QUICKTAB allows you to select any item or subitem that was
defined in the Data Dictionary.  For example, you can produce
a cross-tabulation of body type and vehicle type.  

For more information about QUICKTAB, refer to QUICKTAB GUIDE
FOR THE TRUCK INVENTORY AND USE SURVEY (TIUS) MICRODATA FILE.
It is available as a WordPerfect file (\DOCUMENT\QTIUSGUI.WP) and
as an ASCII file (\DOCUMENT\QTIUSGUI.TXT).