This description of software development for the 1970 Survey of Compensatory Education analysis contract is presented in three sections: (1) specifications for data and output, (2) descriptions of the programs written, and (3) problems encountered while processing the data. The section on Specifications contains the description of the data to be supplied by USOE and the product to be produced by the project staff at the University of Massachusetts. The second section describes the operation of the programs which were written to produce the 3,000 crosstabulation tables. In the third section, problems encountered both prior to and after the arrival of the data tapes from USOE are described. (DB)