#WEB STATA SOFTWARE#
Q: What will I need to do before the course begins?Ī: To have the best experience in the web-based training course, you need to verify that you have installed and updated the necessary software and that you have downloaded all course materials. We have found that most headphones that have microphones, such as the earbuds with microphones that often come with cell phones, allow you to both listen and talk to instructors.Ī: Soft copy of the course notes will be mailed to participants 1 day after the course completion.
Can I use my computer’s microphone and speakers?Ī: We do not recommend using the computer’s microphone and speakers simultaneously. However, we do not recommed taking a web-based course using a public hot spot such as a library, an airport, or a coffee shop. Q: What type of Internet connection do I need?Ī: A high-speed Internet connection is required.
Courses are divided into three- to four modules that take place same session. It is intended to be taken live, in real time, ask the instructor questions, and work examples using Stata. The web-based training course is designed to be interactive. You can then write a separate do file that loads the Stata data set and carries out your analysis.Q: Do I need to be online when the course is taking place?Ī. That's why these do files simply import a data set and save it as a Stata data set. Importing an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file takes longer than loading a Stata data set, and there's no need to repeat that process every time you analyze the data. If it gets it wrong, you can specify that the first row contains variable names with the varnames(1) option.
The import delimited command will try to figure out whether the first row contains variable names or data, and usually succeeds. Text files that put a specific character between variables are also known as delimited files, and the Stata command to read them is import delimited. Hence the name, comma-separated variable file. Importing CSV FilesĪ CSV file is really just a text file, but structured so that each line of text represents one observation and each variable is separated by a comma. If you have a complicated spreadsheet you might click File, Import Excel, tweak the options in the dialog box you get until it can read the spreadsheet successfully, then copy the resulting command into your do file. There are other options that let you specify which which worksheet to read, or to only read in part of a spreadsheet so you can skip titles or notes that aren't really data. Otherwise it will name the variables A, B, C, etc. The firstrow option tells Stata that the first row of the spreadsheet contains the names of the variables. xlsx, but if you do it needs to be the right one. When you give the filename of the spreadsheet you do not need to include. Normally you tell Stata what data set you want to use with the use command, but if the data set is an Excel spreadsheet, use import excel instead.
#WEB STATA FULL#
You can get the full data set from the GSS web site. Note that these files are subsets of the full GSS results.
#WEB STATA DOWNLOAD#
If you want to carry out the examples for this section, click on the following links to download a GSS sample in Excel format and a GSS sample in CSV format, then move them to your U:\SFS folder as described in Managing Stata Files.
#WEB STATA HOW TO#
In this section we'll talk about how to import two of the most common kinds of data files: Excel spreadsheets and CSV (comma-separated variable) files. If you are new to Stata we strongly recommend reading all the articles in the Stata Basics section. This article is part of the Stata for Students series.
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