This module has been designed to introduce you to the Microsoft (MS) Excel program, part of the MS Office suite.  Excel is a spreadsheet software that is often used to organise, analyse and display data.

On completion of this Module, you should be able to:

1:  Confidently navigate data sets in Excel;

2:  Confidently calculate counts and prevalence (%) in Excel;

3:  Create and format tables in Excel to summarise data; and

4:  Create a table and a graph to describe sub-groups within your sample;

5:  Understand what a 'derived variable' is;

6:  Create new variables from existing data;

7:  Create categorical variables from continuous data; and

8:  Create a graph to represent data for multiple groups and categories.

Go to Part 1: Descriptive data analysis: COUNT, SUM, AVERAGE, and other calculations

Go to Part 2: COUNTIFS function

Go to Part 3: Derived variables