Epi Info™ User Guide

Epi Info™ is a series of freely-distributable tools and utilities for Microsoft Windows for use by public health professionals to conduct outbreak investigations, manage databases for public health surveillance and other tasks, and general database and statistics applications. It enables physicians, epidemiologists, and other public health and medical officials to rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data.

Epi Info 7 is free of charge and can be downloaded from the CDC website at http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo.

A printable version of the Epi Info 7 User Guide is available for download in both Word and PDF formats.

• Download the Epi Info 7 User Guide for Word [Word 46.5 MB]
• Download the Epi Info 7 User Guide for PDF [PDF 26.2 MB]
  • Chapter 1: Introduction [PDF 361 KB]
  • Chapter 2: Form Designer [PDF 5.68 MB]
  • Chapter 3: Check Code [PDF 1.24 MB]
  • Chapter 4: Enter [PDF 2.10 MB]
  • Chapter 5: Web Survey [PDF 1.32 MB]
  • Chapter 6: Companion for Android [PDF 2.48 MB]
  • Chapter 7: Data Packager [PDF 574 KB]
  • Chapter 8: Visual Dashboard [PDF 3.05 MB]
  • Chapter 9: Classic Analysis [PDF 1.37 MB]
  • Chapter 10: Maps [PDF 4.20 MB]
  • Chapter 11: Nutritional Anthropometry [PDF 982 KB]
  • Chapter 12: StatCalc [PDF 277 KB]
  • Chapter 13: Command Reference [PDF 627 KB]
  • Chapter 14: Functions and Operators [PDF 217 KB]
  • Chapter 15: Glossary [PDF 91 KB]
  • Chapter 16: Appendix [PDF 112 KB]
    • Reserved Words [PDF 187 KB]