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 Epi Info

Epi Info and Epi Map are public domain software packages designed for the global community of public health practitioners and researchers. Both provide for easy form and database construction, data entry, and analysis with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs.

With Epi Info and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.  Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps are produced with simple commands such as READ, FREQ, LIST, TABLES, GRAPH, and MAP.  Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info. 

Although "Epi Info" is a CDC trademark, the programs, documentation, and teaching materials are in the public domain and may be freely copied, distributed, and translated.

Epi Info Around the World
A 2003 analysis documented 1,000,000 downloads of Epi Info from over 180 countries. The DOS manual and/or programs have been translated from English into 13 additional languages. 

Epi Info on the Web
The Epi Info web site http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.htm contains downloadable versions of the latest Epi Info and Epi Map for Windows and for DOS, in versions that you can operate through the Web, download directly to your PC or download onto floppy disks. The site also contains full documentation, manuals, frequently asked questions and useful web links.

Key Features of Epi Info

  • Maximum compatibility with industry standards, including:
    • Microsoft Access and other SQL and ODBC databases
    • Visual Basic, Version 6 
    • World Wide Web browsers and HTML 
  • Extensibility, so that organizations outside CDC can produce additional modules 
  • Epi Report, a tool that allows the user to combine Analysis output, Enter data and any data contained in Access or SQL Server and present it in a professional format. The generated reports can be saved as HTML files for easy distribution or web publishing.
  • Epi Map, an ArcView®-compatible GIS
  • NutStat, a nutrition anthropometry program that calculates percentiles and z-scores using either the 2000 CDC or the 1978 CDC/WHO growth reference
  • Logistic regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis
  • Data Compare does double data entry comparison
  • Epi Lock password protects, encrypts, and compresses Epi Info data
  • Teaching exercises
  • Entirely new, not just a "port" of Epi Info for DOS
  • Allows analysis and import of other file types

System Requirements
  • Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP is required
  • 32 MB of Random Access Memory. More RAM (64 MB minimum) is recommended for Windows NT 4.0, 2000, 128 MB for Windows XP
  • 200 megahertz processor is recommended, 300 for Windows XP
  • At least 65 megabytes of free hard disk space (Drive C) to install.

Install Epi Info 3.3.2 on your PC