Introduction to Stata

This is the first workshop in a 3-part Stata series offered at the D-Lab that includes: 1) Intro to Stata, 2) Data Analysis in Stata and 3) Stata Programming. You can register for one, two or all three of these workshops. We recommend all three if you are new to Stata. The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Getting a dataset into Stata (no previous knowledge expected)
• 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
• Descriptive graphs (histograms, bar graphs, scatter plots)
• Basic regression

Prerequisite:

A basic understanding of variables (nominal, ordinal, continuous), descriptive stats (mean, standard deviation), correlation, and regression would be assumed.