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Buying Stata (Student Price)
Stata is a private software for data management, analysis, and visualization. Since it is privately owned and developed it costs money to use, but the intuitive functions, high-quality support guides, and capacity for managing large datasets can be worth it for some fields.
Stata is a standard program for most social scientists (economists, sociologists, demographers, etc) due to its specialization in survey data analysis. Its interactive “point-and-click” menus can also make analysis and plotting easier for beginners.
Since Stata isn’t open source there is not as large of a package environment as with Python or R but it is possible to install user-made programs. Stata does not tend to support multiple datasets, spatial data, or machine learning methods as much as Python or R.
General Resource Guides
Stata Corp: Resources for Learning Stata - Comprehensive list of resources from the folks who buit Stata.
Stata Corp: Teaching with Stata - Overview of various resources for teaching (and learning) Stata, including a discipline specific resource guide.
Stata Corp: YouTube Channel - Well-made guides on everything from starting out to subject-specific functions.
UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education: Stata Workshops - Several online seminars from UCLA from getting started to data analysis with useful command function tables.
Stata Corp: Stata Cheatsheets - Extremely helpful cheatsheets for hundreds of Stata commands, from data entry to analysis and plotting.
Complete Tutorials
UC Berkeley: Intro to Stata for Policy Analysts - Beginner Stata seminar built for graduate students of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
WLM: Internet Guide to Stata - Comprehensive set of tutorials from Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer that starts at reading in data and goes all the way to spatial analysis.
Beginner’s Guides
UNC Carolina Population Center: Introduction to Stata - Useful online guide with example code and exercises for starting out with Stata.
Germán Rodríguez: Stata Tutorial - Online guide from Princeton with sample code, visuals, and explanations on everything from loading data to using macros.
UCLA CCPR: Intro to Stata and Efficient Workflow - Presentation slides, video podcast, and example do-file for introductory Stata. To get started navigate to the Bootcamp dropdown menu, then find “10/26/2012 – Introduction to Stata and Efficient Workflow” and open the Podcast link.
Innovations for Poverty Action: Stata Training - GitHub Repo of training courses provided by IPA with walkthrough SMCL (Stata help window style) guides.
Intermediate Guides
UCLA: Advanced Stata Programming - Another helpful set of resources from UCLA CCPR on programming in Stata, including macros, loops, and ado-files. To find, navigate to the Bootcamp dropdown, then find “4/4/2013 – Advanced Stata Programming” and open the Podcast link.
Josh Erickkson: Intermediate Stata - Visualization, regression, survey data, multiple imputation for missing data, and more.
Jennifer Earl: Stata Resources for Data Management - Intro, basics, data management, loops and programs, dates and geo-data. Included as intermediate since it isn’t as beginner-friendly as other guides.
Survey Data
StataCorp: Survey Data Reference Manual
UCLA IDRE: Applied Survey Data Analysis
UNC CPC: Commands to Analyze Survey Data