As mentioned in my previous post, Unicode support (and thus internationalization) will be a great addition to CSPro, coming out in the next half year. After that, the development team plans to focus on the CAPI (computer assisted personal interviewing) world. CSPro currently supports a very basic version of CAPI, but only for Windows platforms. With the proliferation of Android devices, as well as the upcoming Windows 8 tablets, CSPro must adapt to this new world of enumeration.
The world of small-scale surveys may not change dramatically, but the impact of technology on censuses is huge. This is a photo from an East African country that recently conducted a census. The warehouse in this photo stores all of the census forms and requires many workers to operate:
What if an EA were not in the final set ... how easy would it be to find in a mountain of forms? Imagine a world in which all data collection is conducted on a phone or a tablet and immediately sent to the operation headquarters. Data editing would be minimized and the time from collection to publication could effectively be cut to almost zero. Such a world will be an exciting one.