Audience: Those who have never used Stata before but wish to learn.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Work with Stata, including using Do-files and using the help system; Get data into Stata and manage your data files; Establish familiarity with your data; Clean the data to prepare it for analysis; Check for basic errors in the data; Generate new variables or manipulate existing variables; Merge or reshape the data.; Produce summary tables and descriptive statistics.

Note: This workshop does NOT cover any statistical modeling.