Introduction to Stata
Dates:
3rd Oct 2011
25th January 2012
Duration: 1 day (10am — 4:30pm)
Level: Introductory
Course Fee: £175 (£125 for those from educational institutions)
CCSR offers 5 free places to research staff and students within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester and the North West Doctoral Training Centre.
Course Leader:
Dr Jo Wathan
Course Requirements: None
Course Summary
The course provides an introductory training in STATA, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive and powerful statistical capabilities.
Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to familiarise participants with the basic features of STATA 9.0. On completing the course, participants will have covered the following through a combination of presentation and practical sessions;
- The STATA environment: Opening and exploring files, looking at labels, editing and entering data.
- Exploratory analysis: logging outputs, producing tables, subsetting and descriptive statistics.
- Data manipulation: computing new variables, recoding, keeping and dropping, saving commands in a .do file.
- STATA graphics, help and supporting resources.
Target Audience
STATA is especially useful for the analysis of complex surveys and longitudinal data analysis, so participants in either courses in design and analysis of complex surveys or longitudinal data analysis are advised to take this course if they are new to STATA.