Session 1: Intro

[luizaandrade]

• [x] Stata interface
• [x] Loading a data set
• [x] Browsing a data set
• [x] describe
• [x] codebook
• [x] Stata syntax
• [x] Reading help files
• [x] Types of variables

Move to other sessions:

• Operationalizing the Project Folders for the Training - Lecture 2
• DO NOT EDIT A DATASET - Data cleaning Lab
• Missing values - Lab 2

[samaddarsushmita]

1. Should we introduce them to log files and what they do?
2. I see you want to introduce dofiles in the next session, but why not here itself? We can do a short basic, 'Hello World' intro and end the session with them running all the commands they used for browsing the data through the dofile.
3. Should we also introduce them to the types of numerics in STATA and how to recast formats? This link here provides some introduction to format types: http://wlm.userweb.mwn.de/Stata/wstatvar.htm
4. When talking about the different formats of data fields (numeric, string) can we introduce them to STATA's color code on browse?
5. Do they need to know about compress?
6. We can introduce them to lookfor as they browse through the data in the first session.
7. Should we also have them install a package in STATA in this session? ssc install

The link here can be good inspiration: https://dss.princeton.edu/training/StataTutorial.pdf

[luizaandrade]

1. Should we introduce them to log files and what they do?
2. I see you want to introduce dofiles in the next session, but why not here itself? We can do a short basic, 'Hello World' intro and end the session with them running all the commands they used for browsing the data through the dofile.
3. Should we also introduce them to the types of numerics in STATA and how to recast formats? This link here provides some introduction to format types: http://wlm.userweb.mwn.de/Stata/wstatvar.htm
4. When talking about the different formats of data fields (numeric, string) can we introduce them to STATA's color code on browse?
5. Do they need to know about compress?
6. We can introduce them to lookfor as they browse through the data in the first session.
7. Should we also have them install a package in STATA in this session? ssc install

The link here can be good inspiration: https://dss.princeton.edu/training/StataTutorial.pdf

1. I don't think log files are necessary. I don't really use them, and I think they add too much information. I think they are mostly useful to create a record of what you did if you used the point-and-click way of interacting with Stata, which we will teach day from day 1 not to do.
2. Yes, we are introducing them to do-files in this session.
3. I'd prefer to do that when we get into the details of each type of data during data cleaning. This can be a bit off-putting for the first session, what people really want to see results and interact with the data, and that's a bit more nitty-gritty.
4. Yes, that is currently in slide 21.
5. Yes, they absolutely do. But that will come when saving datasets, which they are not doing here.
6. I actually didn't know this command. will add it now.
7. Sure, this seems useful. We haven't used any user-written commands in this session, but we can find one to use