Until recently, I’ve always hand-coded my online surveys, especially those requiring survey logic or special features (snowball sampling, name-generators, etc.).  Recently, I decided to try the LimeSurvey open source survey software (formerly phpsurveyor) as it looked like it had matured sufficiently to meet most of my needs. I am basing my review on LimeSurvey 1.80 [...]

When I was doing industry research for academia (ten years ago), we would often utilize a quick rule-of-thumb for estimating the annual revenues for a company (which, unless they were traded on public exchanges, were rarely available) based upon the number of employees they had.  The rule of thumb was that for every employee, the [...]