Dear students,
This field based course is designed to enable the candidate to carry out specialized duties in relation to environmental health services.The uploaded course materials and resources will help students to interact with field mentors and supervisors.All in all it gives students insights on what covered on field in previous academic years through uploaded reports and videos of the best students.
Course Focal person:
KORUKIRE Noel
Supported by:
All EHS academic staff
Dear Students,
Welcome to the Module of Computer Application and Data Management, Unit of Data Management and Analysis. The Module of Computer Applications and Data Management is a Module for the Year four students of Environmental Health Department. The Module is divided into two unit : Computer Applications and Data Management. The unit of Data management and analysis consists of using IBM SPSS to create a health data set, perform relevant data exploration and data analysis. The unit pays special consideration of the following:
- Structure of a questionnaire (DHS Rwanda 2014-2015 questionnaires): Consent forms, Approvals, questionnaire title, and questions ;
- Familiarize with IBM SPSS window: Data view & variable view
- Explore different menus in IBM SPSS
- Entering and importing data in IBM/SPSS
- Transforming & generating new variables from the existing ones in IBM/SPSS
- Perform descriptive & inferential statistics and related data interpretation: frequency tables, measures of central location (mean, mode, median), measures of variability ( standard deviation, variance, standard error of the mean); range, minimum, maximum, IQR; generating graphs (histograms, pie charts,..), use of chart builder; cross tabulations (2 X2 tables),, chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, degrees of freedom, p-value and its interpretation; Simple linear regression; Correlation; One-way ANOVA; Use of Bonferroni test; Independent sample t-test
- Run a customized data analysis: select cases, merging data sets, perform customized analysis: Select cases in IBM SPSS and run related analysis; and merging datasets in IBM SPSS (merging files)
The Module of Computer Applications and Data Management is a Module for the Year four students of Environmental Health Department. The Module is divided into two unit : Computer Applications and Data Management.
Unit of Computer Applications covers the Health Data Entry Systems. The Census and Survey Processing Systems is covered as one of the Data Entry Systems where students study how the role of Questionnaire,Creation of an Electronic questionnaire, Creation of Dictionary( Items, Records, Value sets, Labels, Ranges and setting Special values), Creating User forms, Testing a Data Entry Systems, Backing up systems and Data, Concatenate data files, Exporting the collected Data
Unit of Data Management vocers