/IPA-Stata-Trainings

Houses IPA's Stata training courses and code.

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Stata_Training

About: The Stata_Training repository houses Stata training courses and code developed by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). These Stata training courses are particularly well suited for students and research assistants in the field of development economics. You can start with Stata 101 without ever having used Stata, and advance through the following courses to build up your coding skills and understanding of Stata.

Contributing authors: Christopher Boyer, Wesley Kirui, Harrison Diamond Pollock, Cristhian Pulido, Rosemarie Sandino, Lindsey Shaughnessy, Gean Spektor, Mathew White.

Course topics and pre-requisites: Use the table below to determine the most approriate course for yourself.

Course Topics Pre-requisites Format and Software Requirements
Stata 101
  • Overview of Stata
  • Browsing data
  • Conditions
  • Saving and Sorting
  • Creating & Changing Variables
    		•  None Microsoft Word: .docx, Microsoft Excel: .xls
    Stata 102
  • Resources
  • Commands
  • Labeling Variables
  • Variable Types
  • IDs & Duplicates
  • Macros and Locals
  • Loops
  • Importing
    		•  Stata 101 Stata: .smcl, .do, .dta
    Stata 103
  • Logical Expressions
  • Dummy Variables
  • Subscripting
  • For-loops & macros
  • _N and _n
  • by
  • Egen
    		•  Stata 102 Stata: .smcl, .do, .dta
    Stata 104
  • r() & e()
  • Variable Recoding
  • Checking skip patterns
  • Check logical consistency
  • Other Data Checks
  • String Cleaning
  • Exporting
    		•  Stata 103 Stata: .smcl, .do, .dta
    Stata 201
  • Extended macro functions
  • Macros and expressions
  • Advanced uses of reshape
    		• Stata 104 Stata: .smcl, .do, .dta

    If you are having trouble opening SMCL files, please ensure that Stata is installed on your computer and that .smcl files are associated with (automatically opened by) Stata.

    Additional support for IPA staff: The training's authors are only able to provide direct support to IPA staff; you may contact us at researchsupport@poverty-action.org. IPA staff also have access to additional Stata training materials in Moodle.

    Licensing: Please attribute IPA if you use these courses outside of individual learning purposes. See the repository's license file for additional information.

    Shield: CC BY 4.0

    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

    CC BY 4.0