Workshop Overview

• Introduction

• Import Existing Data

• Basic Analysis (Example)

• Graphs

• Building Survey/Questionnaire

• Resources

What is EpiInfo?

• Developed by Centres for Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta, Georgia

• Development of electronic survey and questionnaires

• Basic epidemiologic statistics• Data management• Mapping• Programming environment

What it is Not.

• Statistics Program

• Spreadsheet

• Data Management Tool

Some Jargon

• Project: An Epi Info file is also referred to as 1) Epi Info database and 2) .MDB files (Microsoft Access). A project consists of a View and Data Table

• View: Contains information about the data entry screen’s appearance, such as field names and field types.

• Data table: Stores the actual data values for the corresponding View.– Records

– Fields

Import, Manipulate, Analyze

Enter data into custom view

Create custom view

Example

• Client Satisfaction Survey IP Survey Gimli.doc

• Results IP Survey Results.xls

– 98 records, 22 fields

Import Data

List Contents

Frequency of Variables

Frequency NxN of Variables

Selecting Specific Records

Creating New Variables

Calculating Means

Simple Graphics

Simple Graphics

Create custom view

Start New Entry View

Create New Data Fields

Assign Values for Check Values

Assign Values for Unique ID

Enter data into custom view

Assign Values for Unique ID

Resources

• http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/– The tutorials listed on the WWW site are quite

complete

• Provided CD (EPI2003)– Setup (Installation for version 3.3.2)– EpiInfo Course I, EpiInfo Course II– IntroToEpiInfo_AndrewDean.doc– Epi_Info_Beginners_Manual.pdf