StatPac

What do you like best?

The program does a decent job at running tables of data, but crosstabular data and additional analysis is difficult and the steps required to run the analysis are cumbersome.

What do you dislike?

Running anything beyond simple tables is a mess and not simple. Running additional analysis such as chi squared and mean ratings requires many steps and you must either write or perform them in interactive mode which is too much work for a simple glance. They need a dashboard that will allow you to do simple analysis features without having to do a full run of a procedure.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Consider using SPSS or R instead.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Market research for government organizations, community surveys, parks and recreation surveys and the like. There aren't a lot of benefits to using StatPac. It is the program we have used for years and so there is a sense of security with senior staff, but it is out of date and hard to use.