OpenOffice is free and will export in EXCEL format to PASW.
My advice is to use PASW (formerly SPSS) to analyse your results but OpenOffice to create the database.
Also (although its not easy) you can export direct from the online version of the 1881 census into EXCEL format.
David
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From: From: Local-History list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dave Postles
Sent: 22 March 2011 13:03
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Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] Fwd: [LOCAL-HISTORY] Census Spreadsheet
'From a purely personal point of view I've always found Excel to be pretty powerful and a more flexible application than Access. I've also had success with using OpenOffice applications, so I suppose it depends what your institution can offer you in the way of support.'
OpenOffice has now been rebranded by Oracle which bought Sun. Those of us who prefer proper, untainted OpenSource now use LibreOffice, which is developed out of OpenOffice, but has been improved, and the code cleaned up and made more concise (compare that with M$ crapware - layers of shit on shit).
My wife bought an HP OfficeJet 7000 (on sale at a certain office retailer). It has network capabilities so I used a UTP cable to set it up to a power network system. As my wife was using her Windoze PC at the time, I worked on the connection from my Linux notebooks (three different Linux distributions). The systems found the networked printer with no problem, downloaded the appropriate HPLIP drivers, opened the specific port, printed a test page, and then a text file, with no problems - five minutes. When the Windoze PC became available, I spent an hour and a half in first installing the drivers from CD, then trying to configure the firewalls (Windoze and a certain anti-virus app) to allow access through the port to the network, with no success because there are two proprietary firewalls to reconfigure.
In the end, I gave up and installed it using a USB cable, renouncing the network capability. Linux is now streets ahead of Windoze - as are many OpenSource apps because they are tightly coded, not piling crap upon crap to form poor bloatware.
DP
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