Index

• General training page
• Stata training page
• FAQ page
• What to do first?
• Stata’s screen
• Create a log file
• Set a working directory
• Allocate memory
• Open a Stata file
• From Excel to Stata
• The "quickie" way
• The "insheet" way
• Data as *.txt, *.dat, *.raw, etc.
• ASCII data (using Stata infix, infile)
• Running a dictionary file
• ASCII data (using SPSS)
• Data from portable SPSS
• Dealing with zip files (compressed)
• Data manipulation
• Reshape
1. Preparing the data
2. Wide to long
3. Long to wide
• Merge / Append / Reclink
• Adding value labels
• Adding variable names
• Rename
• String to numeric (destring)
• Value to missing
• Date variables
1. d-m-yy
2. m/d/yyyy
3. yyyymd
4. Deconstructing
5. String with day of the week
• Time variables
• Foreach (looping vars)
• Forvalues (looping values)
• Encode command
• Moving average for panel data
• Extracting from numeric/string combination
• Start exploring your data
• Describing the data
• The list command
• The summarize command
• Getting a codebook
• Basic commands
1. Frequencies (tab)
2. Crosstabs
3. Tab1
4. Tabstat
5. Tab/summ
6. Proper
• One-way ANOVA
• t-test
• Some graphs
1. Scatter
1. Regression
2. Quadrants
2. Histogram
3. Bar
4. Categorical
• Factor Analysis
• Interpretation
• Descriptive Statistics (Excel/Stata)
• Programming in STATA (the do-files)
• Do-file definition
• Do-file Hello1.do
• Reading data: Read1.do (using infile, ascii data)
• Reading data: Read2.do (using insheet, excel data)
• Reading data: Read2.do (keeping vars)
• Reading multiple files: Read3.do (using macros)
• Converting F to C: Convert.do (example using macros)
• Looping
• Generate and summarize (z-values example)
• Encode command
• Foreach command (looping, zvalue.do, macros)
• Forvalues command (looping, line.do, macros, graph)
• Exercise
• References
• STATA on PU Networks
• Thank you to Ashley Miller for this pdf document. Please contact her for any questions on this at ashleym@princeton.edu.