CONTENT
Learn how to use all of Stata’s tools and become a sophisticated Stata user. You will understand the Stata environment, how to import and export data from different formats, how Stata’s intuitive syntax works, data management in Stata, matching and merging, how to analyze subgroups of data, how to reproduce your work and document it for publication and review, how to interact with the Stata community online, and more.

 

Videos, lessons, examples, and exercises combine to develop your Stata skills.

 

PREREQUISITES

Stata 16 installed and working

Knowledge of your computer

Internet web browser, installed and working (Course is platform independent)

 

PROGRAM

 

LESSON I

Sample session

Main Stata window

Menus and dialogs

Command and Results windows

Review window

Variables window

Data Editor

Renaming and formatting variables

Hide, show, and order your data

Viewer

Installing user-written commands

Do-file Editor

Graph window and Editor

 

LESSON II

Current working directory
Loading and saving data
Working with data

Stata’s command syntax
The data in memory
Value labels
Formats
Notes
Other kinds of labels

Keeping logs
Safe computing
Basic data reporting
Data manipulation
Making strings into numerical categorical variables

Doing things the long way
The second solution
The best solution

Observation subscripts _n and _N
Memory management

 

LESSON III

Obtaining data
Import and export Excel data

import excel
export excel

Import and export text data

import delimited
export delimited

Other commands to import and export data

Import and export data from and to a database (ODBC)
Undelimited text data
Import and export SAS XPORT files
Import Haver databases
Import Federal Reserve Economic Data
Translate shapefiles

Reading dates and times

 

LESSON IV

Appending data
Merging data

Notes about merge
Merge with repeated variables

An example of append and merge
Wide versus long data
How to think about variables and their contents

 

 

Note: There is a one-week break between the posting of Lessons 2 and 3; however, course leaders are available for discussion