Tag Archives: Stata

Data Analysis with Stata (Intermediates)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Reinhard Schunck (Bielefeld University)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
06.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents: n.s.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata (Beginners)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Tobias Gramlich (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Date:

03.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
04.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
06.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30
07.10.2011, 09:00 – 12:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 20

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English/German (depending on participants)

Contents:

Stata is a statistical program package widely used (not only) in the social and economical sciences; it is used for data management, statistical graphics and analysis of quantitative data. Statistical concepts will not be part of the course, so participants should have some very basic knowledge of statistics. The course should enable participants to prepare their data for analysis, perform adequate analysis using a statistical computer program and to document these tasks to keep them reproducible.

For Beginners with No or Very Little Knowledge of the Program!

Course Topics cover:

  • “What You Type is What You Get”: Basic stata Command syntax
  • Getting (and Understanding) Help within stata: stata Bulit-in Help System
  • Basic Data Management: Load and Save stata Datasets, Generate and Manipulate Variables, Describe and Label Data and Variables, Perform Basic uni- and bivariate Analyses, Change the Structure of your Data
  • Basic stata Graphics: Scatterplot, Histogram, Bar Chart
  • Working with “Do-” and “Log-” Files

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to the SOEP

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Elke Holst (SOEP at DIW) and Anne Busch (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) & SOEP at DIW)

Date:

03.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30
04.10.2011, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

The Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a longitudinal study of private households in Germany. The panel provides information on all household members and was started in 1984. In 2009, there were almost 12,000 households, and more than 20,000 persons sampled. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health, well being, integration, values, lifestyles, and personality. The course gives an overview of the data structure and the research designs facilitated by longitudinal household studies that go beyond conventional surveys (household analysis, intergenerational analysis, life course research, etc.). In hands-on sessions using Stata, the course provides an applied introduction into the data retrieval, the construction of longitudinal data files, and illustrates some exemplary analyses.

You have to register for the 5th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Introduction to the SOEP

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Elke Holst (SOEP at DIW) and Andrea Schäfer (University of Bremen)

Date:
04.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30
05.10.2010, 14:00 – 17:30

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 25

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 5 CP for participating in the whole IRWS

Language of instruction: English

Contents:
The Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is a longitudinal study of private households in Germany. The panel provides information on all household members and was started in 1984. In 2008, there were more than 11,000 households, and about 20,000 persons sampled. Some of the many topics include household composition, occupational biographies, employment, earnings, health, well being, integration, values, lifestyles, and personality. The course gives an overview of the data structure and the research designs facilitated by longitudinal household studies that go beyond conventional surveys (household analysis, intergenerational analysis, life course research, etc.). In hands-on sessions using Stata, the course provides an applied introduction into the data retrieval, the construction of longitudinal data files, and illustrates some exemplary analyses.

You have to register for the 4th International Research Workshop to participate in this course.

Data Analysis with Stata (Advanced)

Institution: see Organisers & Acknowledgements

Program of study: International Research Workshop

Lecturer: Andrea Schäfer (University of Bremen)

Date:
05.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
06.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
08.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
09.10.2009, 09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Room: n.s.

Max. number of participants: 17

Semester periods per week: n.s.

Credit Points: 3 CP for participating in the whole IRWS 2009

Language of instruction: English

Contents:

The course is designed to provide a more advanced knowledge of Stata 10. Those who are already experienced in using Stata for data analysis and attended the ‘Introduction to Stata’ course or be familiar with the contents will benefit most from the course. Further, it is assumed that participants will have a working knowledge of basic statistics. However, the course is not focussed on statistical content, but on data management skills. By the end of the course, students should be able to use Stata 10 efficiently through using a broader range of complex commands, understanding and using matrices, scalars and macros and produce formatted outputs.

Teaching practice will consist of tutorials and practical sessions (exercises).

Course outline:

  • Short review on basics
  • How to reshape and create data sets
  • Advanced functions and commands: using egen, _N, _n
  • Structure of loopings: while, foreach and forvalues
  • Managing and creating matrices
  • Understanding and using: scalars, macros and arguments
  • Fancy graphs: Create tailor-made publication quality graphs
  • Know how to export results: estout, outreg, tabout
  • Very first steps: writing programs

You have to register for the 3rd International Research Workshop to participate in this course.