Data Management Using Stata: A Practical Handbook

This second edition of Data Management Using Stata focuses on tasks that bridge the gap between raw data and statistical analysis.It has been updated throughout to reflect new data management features that have been added over the last 10 years.Such features include the ability to read and write a wide variety of file formats, the ability to write highly customized Excel files, the ability to have multiple Stata datasets open at once, and the ability to store and manipulate string variables stored as Unicode.Further, this new edition includes a new chapter illustrating how to write Stata programs for solving data management tasks.As in the original edition, the chapters are organized by data management areas: reading and writing datasets, cleaning data, labeling datasets, creating variables, combining datasets, processing observations across subgroups, changing the shape of datasets, and programming for data management.Within each chapter, each section is a self-contained lesson illust