Advanced data analysis

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to basic programming in Stata and to provide guidance on data management strategies for socio-economics data. The course will focus on command-based programming for modifying and managing data and performing statistical analysis in Stata.

By the end of the course students will be able to comfortably navigate the Stata environment, create simple datasets, access existing datasets, create variables, use graphing functions, run commands to calculate summary statistics as well as inferential statistics, including simple and multiple regression.