Introduction to STATA

Description:

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 14. 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.

 On completion of the course, participants will have the necessary familiarity with Stata to move on to further Stata courses and/or continue learning themselves 

Cost:

£195 (£140 for those from educational, government and charitable institutions)

Website and registration:

https://www.cmist.manchester.ac.uk/study/short/list/

Region:

North West

Keywords:

Analysis of existing survey data, Digital Social Research, Analysis of social media, Data Quality and Data Management , Data Management , Data Quality and Data Management (other), Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, Stata

Related publications and presentations:

Analysis of existing survey data
Digital Social Research
Analysis of social media
Data Quality and Data Management
Data Management
Data Quality and Data Management (other)
Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis
Stata

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