Exploring the role of GIS during community health assessment problem solving: experiences of public health professionals

Table 4 Technology for numerical problem solving steps

Number of Participants Using These Statistical Software Technologies
SPSS	11
SAS	6
Stata	3
Epi-Info	3
Excel	13

Note: A participant indicating they use both SAS and SPSS, for example, would be scored "1" for SAS" and "1" for SPSS". Included are Statistical software SPSS, SAS, Stata, and Epi-Info (other than Epi-Map) Excel is included because is a popular tool for community health problem solving and contains many basic functions found in a statistical software application. Excel was not aggregated into the category "statistical software" but is shown here because it is commonly used in place of statistical software.