Using Data: Software - Stata

Stata is an interactive data analysis program which runs on a variety of platforms. Stata is installed on the Windows machines and Macs in OIT's public clusters and on the Windows machines in the DSS computer lab, as well as on the Tombstone Unix server.

All of the pages listed below will also be accessible via Help.

Introductory Material

• Introduction to Stata
• Hands-on tutorial (pdf file)
• On-line training
• Exploring your data
• Creating and modifying variables

Data Manipulation

• Converting to and from Excel
• Managing data
• Data 101
• Reshape World Development Indicators data
• Reshape Datastream data

Data Analysis

• Descriptive Statistics on-line training
• Working with dummy variables
• Introduction to regression
• Interpreting regression output
• Regression With Stata, Frequently Asked Questions
• Time series analysis
• Lag selection
• Event Studies with Stata
• Panel data analysis

On Unix

• Basics
• Common commands
• Quick reference
• Stata on Unix

Related Resources

• Stata corp FAQs
• UCLA Stata help
• Eszter's Stata Goodies Page
• Professor Rodriguez's Stata tutorial
• Office of Population Research Stata page
• Carolina Population Center Stata tutorial
• Stata corp list of resources