Stata Level Information

To determine your Stata skill level for the Logistics form, please use the following guidelines: 

Stata Training Prerequisites

Stata 101:

 You have very little or no knowledge of Stata.

Stata 102:

You have some Stata experience (say in a college class) but would not consider yourself particularly comfortable with the program. You are very familiar with the following concepts:

• Descriptive commands such as summarize, tabulate, and list

• Conditions: if, and (&), and or (|)

• Data manipulation commands such as generate, replace, and drop

 You are likely somewhat familiar with:

• Creating and writing do-files

• Sorting and saving datasets

Stata 103:

You have used Stata for a major school project or in a work environment. You feel comfortable with all basic commands and are very familiar with the following concepts:

• Locals (note: this is absolutely necessary!!)

• The foreach command

• Naming and labelling variables

• Variable types (strings, numerics)

• Importing data through use, merge and append

 You are likely somewhat familiar with:

• Loops using varlist or numlist

• by

• egen

 Stata 104:

This is an advanced, applied, Stata class. You should be quite comfortable using Stata. You are very familiar with the following concepts:

• Loops with varlist and numlist, as well as while loops

• The if command (distinct from the if qualifier)

• _N and _n

• by

• egen

You are likely somewhat familiar with:

• capture and assert

• Saved results such as r(N), r(levels)

Note: If you are struggling between two levels , it is suggested you start at the lower level. The trainings are flexible, and it is easy to move up quickly after an initial session.