This course is designed for people who wish to attend the other courses in this programme, in particular ‘Complex Social Survey Data’ or ‘Measuring Economic Welfare’, and who need to brush up on their basic Stata skills. It will also be useful for anyone who needs a basic Stata refresher.
Course outline:
- The Stata menu system and environment
- Opening datasets and getting descriptive statistics
- Preserving the output from a session
- Restricting commands to subsets of the data
- Regression with data
- Running commands in batches (do‑files)
- Simple graphs
Next course: Please contact Alison Siljeur for information on the next course.