Blaise Software Description

Blaise® is a flexible and powerful computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) system and survey processing tool for the Windows® operating system. Blaise software is worldwide used by national statistical institutes and related scientific research organisations for the production of official statistics. Click here for a short introduction.



Blaise software includes many advanced capabilities that meet the high demands of today's CAI surveys:

  • "Out of the box" seamless support for multi-mode surveys (CATI, CAPI, CADE, CAWI) and survey processes (data review and editing)
  • Interactive data review and editing
  • Proven interviewer interface with screen layouts that can be customized
  • Powerful but simple questionnaire definition language
  • Use the same Blaise instrument for any survey mode and for data review and editing
  • Ability to include multimedia (sound, pictures, video) in a survey instrument
  • Convenient support for user-developed add-on components (DLLs)
  • Open system architecture that supports the integration of Blaise with non-Blaise systems and software
  • Datalink add-ons for flexible communication with database formats such as Oracle, SQL-server and Access.
  • Comprehensive documentation
  • More about capabilities...



Blaise is used world-wide to conduct a wide variety of surveys.

  • Household surveys
  • Business and economic surveys
  • Health surveys
  • Labor force surveys
  • Energy/environment/agriculture surveys
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal sample designs
  • Multi-mode surveys



Contact us to learn more about Blaise for your survey processing needs.