From the last post in this series, you should know how to change between numeric types and easily change numeric data. We’ll now expand your type-changing skills to include changing string variables with two new commands. (more…)
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Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #12: Changing Variables to and from Strings
May 29th, 2025 by TAF Support
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #11: Editing Variables Using recode and recast
May 12th, 2025 by TAF Support
From our last posts in this series, you should be comfortable with how Stata handles data editing, as well as with making your own variables. In this post, we’ll talk about commands that edit the content or storage type of your variables in Stata: recode and recast. Let’s start off with the recode command.
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #10: Four Commands to Create New Variables in Stata
April 29th, 2025 by TAF Support
From our last article, you should feel comfortable with the idea of editing and saving data sets in Stata. In this article, we’ll explain how to create new variables in Stata using replace, generate, egen, and clonevar.
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #9: Saving, Reordering, and Dropping Data
March 17th, 2025 by TAF Support
Stata makes it a breeze to edit or clean your data. If you’re unfamiliar with using data sets in Stata, check out these blog posts to get a good grasp on importing and browsing data in Stata.
For this tutorial we will be using Stata’s “auto” data set. If you haven’t loaded it in yet, type
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #8: Examining Data in Stata
January 14th, 2025 by guest contributer
Once you’ve imported your data into Stata the next step is usually examining it.
Before you work on building a model or running any tests, you need to understand your data. Ask yourself these questions:
- Is every variable marked as the appropriate type?
- Are missing observations coded consistently and marked as missing?
- Do I want to exclude any variables or data points?
Getting Started with Stata Tutorial #7: Importing Data into Stata
December 10th, 2024 by guest contributer
In our previous posts, we’ve relied on Stata’s pre-loaded datasets to perform analyses. But when you’re working with your own data, you’ll need to know how to import it into Stata.
To demonstrate how this process works, we will use the Iris dataset from UCI.
Download the dataset, then move it to whichever directory you intend to use for Stata files.
There are three main ways of importing data in Stata: either use the menus to import the data, call the dataset by its full file extension, or change your directory to the one with your data and then refer to the dataset by name. (more…)