Research Guides: Stata Workshop: Session 1

Select do-files to download
Once downloaded, you may open either by double-clicking file in saved location or by entering "doedit filename" in Stata's main command window (e.g., doedit c:\data\stata\1.2import.do).

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1.1 log
Open, close, view, and translate log (.smcl) files. [Please note: contains filepaths that may not correspond to your storage arrangement. If left unedited, do-file unlikely to run smoothly in Stata]
1.2 import
Import native (.dta) and non-native (.csv, .xlsx, etc.) datasets. [Please note: contains filepaths that may not correspond to your storage arrangement. If left unedited, do-file unlikely to run smoothly in Stata]
1.3 browseEdit
Browse datasets and manually edit values
1.4 describeSummarize
Generate descriptive and summary statistics. Useful for surveying contents of a dataset, variable, or group of observations
1.5 duplicates
Identify, explore, and eliminate duplicate observations
1.6 missingValues
Identify, recode, and decode missing values. Also introduces commands for discovering missing-value patterns among data
1.7 keepDrop
Delete and retain variables and observations
1.8 savingDatasets
Save and relabel working datasets. [Please note: contains filepaths that may not correspond to your storage arrangement. If left unedited, do-file unlikely to run smoothly in Stata]
doFilesSession1
Zip folder containing all above do-files