DASH incorporates the same structures and principles across all functions in a fully integrated package, and this means a programmer can use the same skill set across the full range of DASH applications.The mix of applications employed daily at a research company may vary, with data entry and programming staff using the licences weekdays and CATI interviewers taking over all licences on evenings and weekends.Initial data collection, recoding, data correction, and reporting all proceed in parallel on each survey in a single file, so that tables can be executed on live data files as entry continues. When operations run in parallel rather than sequentially, each project is completed more quickly.