Module 7 Summary

In this tutorial we have covered several topics related to creating datasets with the Stata statistical software package. Specifically,

  • We explored how to create a codebook from a questionnaire
  • We also examined how to develop a coding schema and create a codesheet for our data
  • We have also gone over how to manually input data into a Stata dataset
  • Again, we learned how to add variable names and variable labels to our dataset
  • Finally, we learned how to save our Stata dataset, and make them backward and forward compatible for use by earlier and later versions of Stata.

7.1 References

  1. Acock, A. C. (2012). A Gentle Introduction to Stata. StataCorp LP.
  2. Baum, F. C. (2011). Introduction to Stata. Boston College. retrieved from: http://fmwww.bc.edu/gstat/docs/StataIntro.pdf
  3. Rodriguez, G. (n.d.). Stata Tutorial. Princeton University. retrieved from:https://data.princeton.edu/stata/
  4. Stata Corporation. (2003). Stata base reference manual. College Station, TX: Stata Corp.
  5. Torres-Reyna, O. (2007) Getting Starrted in Data Analysis with Stata. Princeton University. retrieved from: https://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/StataTutorial.pdf