Stata resources

Courses

• DIME’s Stata Training

Consultation materials

• Daniel Feenberg’s Stata for very large datasets
• DIME Analytics Stata Style Guide
• List of Stata packages for difference-in-differences estimation: includes sample codes and links to package documentation and original paper
• Stata cheatsheets

Sample code

• Demo for exporting tables from Stata
• Demo for exporting tables from Stata with LaTeX’s three part table
• Demo for testing a reproduciblity package
• Mostly harmless replication repository
• Stata main script example

Useful packages

• Ben Jann’s packages: includes packages to export tables (estout), customize graphs (coefplot, grstyles, palettes) and create dynamic documents (webdoc, texdoc)
• gtools: “faster Stata for big data” – uses C to create faster versions of functions like reshape, collapse, isid, egen, levelsof, duplicates, and unique/distinct.
• IPA’s high-frequency checks template
• IPA GitHub repositories: functions for Survey CTO and Stata
• J-PAL GitHub repositories: includes sample code for to scan data for PII in R and Stata, plus resources for data quality checks