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Is anyone familiar with the EpiData data entry freeware (http://www.epidata.dk/index.htm)?  If so, any comments on reliability, ease of use, size of project one can use it for or any other advice?

Thanks
Marguerite

Marguerite Ennis, Applied Statistician

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Raymond Hoffmann
Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin
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You don't say whether you are academic or what in your electronic signature.

Look into RedCap.  Very good data entry tool and freeware to academics; I'm
not sure about private consultants.  It's the standard tool we use other than
for the most complex projects.

Ray

I love EpiData and use it often. I find it very easy to use, robust, and stable. It is an excellent way to "enforce" accurate data entry (consistent date formats, spelling, etc), especially if the project involves entry by several different people. Be sure to read the documentation on the EpiData website about limits to the length of the Notes file. This is the file where users can enter free-text comments about the record they are entering.

As for limits to the number of records, I don't know off-hand. I know we use it in our health department to collect data on number of daily visits to 6 different walk-in clnics in our county. We have about 40,000 records so far. EpiData website says, "no limit" I think.

The main trouble, if you want to call it that, I've run into is a little paradigm shift needed among data entry personnel who are used to using a spreadsheet for the task (yuckkk!)

--Chris
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Christopher Ryan
Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine
SUNY Upstate Clinical Campus At Binghamton
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