Learn how 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 reporduce 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.
Internet web browser, installed and working (Course is platform independent.)
Course content
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Lesson 1: Introduction to the Stata Interface (11 July)
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 2: Working with data (18 July)
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
One-week break (25–31 July)
Course leaders are available for discussion during the break.
Lesson 3: Importing data into Stata (1 August)
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 4: Merge and append multiple datasets (8 August)
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
Course ends (22 August)
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$125
11 July–22 August 2025
6 weeks (4 lessons)
