A review of OSIRIS IV

Abstract

The Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has begun the dissemination of OSIRIS IV, the latest version in Michigan's series of statistical systems. OSIRIS IV is designed to be an eventual replacement for the OSIRIS III system. OSIRIS has long been the ugly duckling of statistical systems. Data analysts find its six volumes of documentation forbidding and unintelligible, and dislike the cross-tabulation program's control syntax and lack of category labels. As a result, most data managers have remained unaware of OSIRIS III's unequalled power at managing sequential data files.