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About Epi Info and this Site

Contents of this Page:

• What is Epi Info?
• What is included on this Site?
• What this Web Site does not discuss
• Who should use this Web Site
• How to use this Web Site

Epi-Info is a public domain program designed for use by epidemiologists and related professionals. It's biggest advantages are that it is simple to use and that it accomodates in a single software package the following:

• This Web site provides a simple introduction and illustration of the use of Epi-Info for selected data management activities, including the following:
• Creating a data entry program
• Programming data entry error checks
• Carrying out data entry and verification
• Preparing and exporting the data to other platforms (e.g. SAS).

• This Web Site is not intended to be an overview of Epi-Info. For example, Epi-Info has many statistical analysis options. Attention here is focused on its application for data entry. This Web Site does not include any discussion of issues pertaining to the design of a survey or any other forms of data collection instrument. More comprehensive tutorials are available from the Epi Info Web Site.

Users who have or are planning to collect data for subsequent data analysis might use this Web Site as a tool for creating a numerical data base. Such persons might be public health workers, researchers, etc involved in the management of data sets of moderate size. Note that Epi-Info is not intended for the management of such large data bases such as the US National Health Interview Survey.

This Web Site is organized as a tutorial around an example described in the Epi Info Manual. It is recommended that the user new to Epi-Info work through the tutorial following and replicating the examples given. This should take approximately 1-2 hours.