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From | Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> |
To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
Subject | Re: st: Re:population datasets availability and related user written programs |
Date | Wed, 29 May 2013 19:07:28 -0400 |
Michael, World Bank data might also be of use, for example: -- population of USA in 1960: http://api.worldbank.org/countries/usa/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL?date=1960 -- population of Ukraine in 1991-2010 http://api.worldbank.org/countries/ukr/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL?date=1991:2010 -- female population of Australia as percent of male population in 1961-2010 http://api.worldbank.org/countries/aus/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL.FE.ZS?date=1961:2010 etc. Dictionary of indicators and country codes are available from: data.worldbank.org API description is here: http://data.worldbank.org/node/11 Best, Sergiy Radyakin On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov <dvmaster@gmail.com> wrote: > You can get quandl from ssc to download such data in Stata format. > Instruction are here: > http://www.quandl.com/help/packages/stata > > For example, to get annual population of US from 1950-2010 from the > Penn World Tables, you would > -quandl, quandlcode(PENN/USA_POP) clear- > > There are other health datasets for the US listed here: > http://www.quandl.com/health/usa-all-health-indicators > > > Your second question is too vague to be answerable. If you elaborate > on the goals, you may get a better answer. In the mean time, > definitely take a look at the Time Series manual, Introduction to Time > Series Using Stata by Sean Becketti, and German Rodriguez's demography > class notes (http://data.princeton.edu/eco572/). > > DVM > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Michael Stewart > <michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Statalist reader, >> >> I am trying to find options to download the population datasets (like >> population is USA across years etc) from web. >> >> Also are there any good/must have user written programs if you are >> trying to estimate conditions across time( death statistics across >> years ) in USA . >> >> -- >> Thank you , >> Yours Sincerely, >> Mike. >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/