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An introduction to STATA:
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What is STATA?
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| STATA is a user-friendly
statistical software programme that offers a broad
range tools for data management and statistical
analysis. Learning how to use STATA should be, in
practical terms, invaluable for ESCAP's staff whose
work is related to the statistical analysis of data.
This course is aimed at the first-time user of STATA
to provide practical knowledge and understanding of
the basics of STATA. |
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Objectives:
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| After successfully completing
this introductory STATA session (three 1/2-day
training modules), which will include real data
examples and an independent project, participants
will be able to read and reorganize datasets as well
as carry out simple analysis and construct useful
tables and graphs often used in reports. |
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Day 1: Introduction to STATA |
- Overview of STATA
- Getting help and updates
- Understanding STATA’s command
syntax
- Running STATA interactively
and in batch mode (i.e. do-file)
- Saving results output in a
log-file
- Getting data into STATA
(reading ASCII data (infile and insheet) and
importing data from other sources)
- Getting summary statistics
(including r-class variables)
- Brief introduction to linear
regression (OLS)
- Introduction to graphs in
STATA
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Day 2: Data management using
STATA |
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Accessing World Bank data
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Variable types and names
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Dealing with string variables and dates in STATA
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Observation subscripts _n and _N
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Combining data sets (append and merge)
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Reshaping data (wide versus long data)
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Generating/replacing/labeling/deleting variables
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Renaming/reordering/sorting variables
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Creating categorical variables
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Some simple programming tools for saving time
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Memory management
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Day 3: 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.
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| For more information on the session, contact Mr.
Alberto Isut (MPDD) ext. 1773 |
