st: very simple statistical analysis question for survey data

[Jen McCormick <jenmc@stanford.edu>]

Hello Stata Listserve -

A colleague and I are analyzing categorical survey data using tabulate 
<varname1> <varname2> if <varname3>, chi2 and gologit2 <outcomevar> 
<explanatoryvar1> <explanatoryvar2> etc, autofit.  In building our 
models we are using output from the contingency tables we have created 
using tabulation (both simple 2-way tables as well as the slightly more 
complicated tables noted above) as well as common sense

We have been relying Alan Agresti's An Introduction to Categorical Data 
Analysis, what we can locate using Stata's help feature, and information 
we have pulled from other websites including the UCLA Stats Stata 
website and Richard Williams'.  Because we are both quite new to these 
kinds of analyses, we are not certain we are performing all the 
appropriate tests or using all the appropriate tools for creating our 
model(s). We are particularly concerned about how to handle interactions 
among explanatory variables (if we ought to worry about that at all).  
Are there other resources (geared toward novices) we ought to be 
referencing?  Have we missed an important step?

Any suggestions as to where we might, as beginners, locate insightful 
resources - documentation or persons, are much appreciated.

Thanks.

Jen McCormick
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