This course will equip participants with basic skills in the field of perinatal epidemiology and its application in the field of Maternal and Child Health. Students will work with birth and death data using SAS, SPSS or STATA to gain experience in secondary data analysis; from initial data base organization and cleaning through descriptive analysis and interpretation of the content. Topics such as proper data coding, the use of prenatal indices and an introduction to data linkage will be included.