Session 1: Thursdays 9:00-12:00
5 January 2012: Data management using STATA
12 January 2012: Introduction to data analysis using STATA
19 January 2012: Practice session
Session 2: Thursdays 9:00-12:00
6 January 2012: Data management using STATA
13 January 2012: Introduction to data analysis using STATA
20 January 2012: Practice session
Session 3: Thursdays 13.30-16.30
6 January 2012: Data management using STATA
13 January 2012: Introduction to data analysis using STATA
20 January 2012: Practice session
Venue: IT Learning Lab, UNESCAP Learning Centre, 3rd Floor of UNCC
Facilitator: Professor Yong Yoon
Assistant Dean and Chairperson of
Ph.D. Program in Economics,
Faculty of Economics,
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand
Target audience: Staff members interested in working with data more effectively and learning basic quantitative analysis techniques
Data management using STATA:
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• Introduction to STATA
• Getting help and updates
• Command syntax
• Running STATA in a batch mode (i.e. do-file) and logging STATA • • Getting data into STATA
• Reading ASCII data and importing data from other programs
• Accessing World Bank data
• Variable types and names
• Combining data sets
• Reshaping data
• Generating/replacing/labeling/deleting variables
• Renaming/reordering/sorting variables
• Creating categorical variables |
Introduction to data analysis using STATA
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• Descriptive analysis of data
• Getting summary statistics
• Tabulations
• Regression analysis (OLS)
• Some post-estimation tests
• Graphs |
Practice session:
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• Participants will be assigned a project to be completed in small groups or individually with the objective of solidifying understanding of the topics covered in the previous two sessions. If time allows, the instructor will present a brief introduction to programming commands (e.g. forvalues, foreach, while). |
