Thank you for this. I will look into another solution. This limesurvey is interesting but I do not know if I will learn on time to use it.
Caveman On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Jason Pickering <[email protected] > wrote: > IMHO, DHIS2 is not well suited for survey data. It depends on the nature > of the survey really, but remember that you must know the nature of the > organisational hierarchy (or beneficiaries in this case) before hand. Most > surveys also have some type of skip-logic/validation which DHIS2 does not > have at the moment. > > We considered using DHIS2 here in Zambia for a survey, but it sort of felt > like trying to squeeze a square peg in a round hole. We ended up using PDAs > for the primary data collection, which was then processed and cleaned in > statistical software, and eventually, the aggregate data was transformed > and imported into DHIS2. > > You may want to consider giving http://limesurvey.org/ a try. It is a > very powerful tool, and has many more features which are suited to surveys > than DHIS2. > > For paper based surveys, CSPro is a good choice. > > There are lots of PDA based mobile data collection tools as well. > > At the end of the day, it really depends on the nature of the survey. If > you have a known orgunit hierarchy (or I guess in this case, a list of > beneficiaries) it might work for your purposes, and their are obvious > advantages to having the data directly in DHIS2, but you may want to > consider other software (such as LimeSurvey, CSPro) for primary data > collection, followed by statistical analysis and cleaning, and finally, > export into the aggregate system. > > Just my two cents. > > Jason > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Orvalho Augusto <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I am making part of group that will collect data all over the country >> from a survey. There will be 3000 thousand HIV patients included on the >> sample. >> >> There are one big form with 10 pages and there is another for lab data. >> The study will take 6 months. >> >> The questions: >> >> 1. Can I use DHIS for this? Can you provide recommendantions. >> >> The objective is to reduce time on database design and I could spread >> this much more quickly and the madness of dealing with users DHIS would >> already do for me. >> >> 2. If DHIS can be used how I do the pages separation? >> >> Thanks >> Caveman >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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