New Features in EpiData - Among Others Exporting from Epidata to DDI 3.1 and Easy Archiving

Poster EpiData is a free software program for data management and analysis in epidemiology, demographic and health research and social sciences. The program can be downloaded http://www.epidata.dk . The conceptual understanding, design and functions in EpiData are linked to the research working cycle. It offers you possibilities to define, enter, manage, analyze and export or archive data in the workflow of your research’s project. People involved with EpiData and DDA have continually shared experiences and knowledge in the field of data documentation, preservation and dissemination, especially knowledge about the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). Researchers, archivists and developers from EpiData and DDA Health has since 2010 been cooperating to changes the data format of EpiData Manager EpiData Entry to xml and to make it possible to export data to DDI 3.1. As a result it is now possible to export data to DDI 3.1 and also to support data archiving from EpiData Manager and EpiData Entry. New versions of the program are available from the homepage. EpiData Manager and EpiData Entry are used worldwide by approximately 200.000 worldwide.