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[Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> 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 <orvaquim@xxxxxxxxx>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
>>
>>
>>
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