ABSTRACT
Objective To explore how to use Epidata and SPSS software in process of coding,entry and statistical analysis of multiple choice conveniently and quickly.Methods On the basis of the hospital demands for nursing graduates behavior questionnaire,Epidata and SPSS software was adopted to realize information coding,entry and statistical analysis of multiple choice,directional selection problem,sort multiple-choice questions.Results Through examples show,a combination of the two software carried on reasonable coding,entry and processing in the three different types of multiple-choice questions,involved in the hospital demands for nursing graduates behavior questionnaire,and gave registration interface of Epidata software,multiple choice encoding and SPSS data analysis process.Conclusions The combination of the two kinds of software can greatly improve the speed of data entry,especially when the data sample is large.