Introduction to STATA
Date:
21/01/2015
Organised by:
University of Manchester
Presenter:
Dr James Laurence (http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=james.laurence)
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Short courses administrator; cmist-courses@manchester.ac.uk
Description:
Prerequisites
STATA is especially useful for the analysis of complex surveys and longitudinal data analysis, so participants in either courses in design and analysis of complex surveys or longitudinal data analysis are advised to take this course if they are new to STATA.
Outline
The course provides an introductory training in STATA, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and powerful statistical capabilities.
Objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarise participants with the basic features of STATA 9.0. On completing the course, participants will have covered the following through a combination of presentation and practical sessions;
- The STATA environment: Opening and exploring files, looking at labels, editing and entering data.
- Exploratory analysis: logging outputs, producing tables, subsetting and descriptive statistics.
- Data manipulation: computing new variables, recoding, keeping and dropping, saving commands in a .do file.
- STATA graphics, help and supporting resources.
Cost:
£195 (£140 for those from educational and charitable institutions).
Website and registration:
http://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/courses/short/introductory/intro-to-stata/
Region:
North West
Keywords:
Survey and Questionnaire Design
Related publications and presentations:
Survey and Questionnaire Design