Beginning Stata

This 2-part workshop will cover (in a teaching computer lab environment, using the General Social Survey as a common dataset): 

DAY ONE

• Getting a dataset into Stata 
• Examining a dataset and finding variables of interest
• Summarizing and tabulating variables
• Stata specific tools and resources (do files, logs, help files, etc) 
• Coding and cleaning data (making new variables from old variables; labeling variables and values, etc) 
• Using logical operators in Stata
• Cross-tabulations
• Basic graphs (histograms, bar graphs, scatter plots)

 DAY TWO

• Correlation tables
• Scales
• T-tests
• OLS and logistic regression (basic syntax, using interaction terms, interpreting output)
• Regression post-estimation (getting predicted values, basic graphs 

A basic understanding of variables (nominal, ordinal, continuous), descriptive stats (mean, standard deviation), correlation, and regression would be assumed (for help, we can point you to some resources). No knowledge of Stata or any other statistical software will be expected.