Introduction to Data Analysis using Stata
The course is aimed at those who are new to Stata, as well as anyone who needs a basic Stata refresher. You will learn techniques for day-to-day use of Stata as well as be able to use Stata efficiently for basic analyses and graphics. This course is also designed for people who wish to attend other courses offered by DataFirst such as the “Complex Social Survey Data” course or the “Measuring Economic Welfare” one.
Draft Course Outline:
- The Stata menu system and environment,
- Opening datasets and getting descriptive statistics,
- Preserving the output from a session,
- Restricting commands to subsets of the data,
- Running commands in batches (do-files),
- Simple graphs.
Dates: To be confirmed
Course Instructor:
Course Fees: The cost of the course is R 4 000.00. Partial scholarships are available to students.
Closing Date: TBA
*DataFirst reserves the right to postpone or cancel this course due to lack of demand.
