Undergraduate Course: Preparing data for analysis using Stata (SSPS10020)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | School (School of Social and Political Studies) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is designed to introduce students to basic skills and syntax in Stata necessary for analysing complex survey data. This will include selecting variables of interest from multiple datasets and merging these into new datasets, checking and cleaning datasets, and learning time-saving tricks to manipulate data ¿ including recodes, generating new variables, creating tables in word or excel format using Stata syntax. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students are expected to be familiar with the following techniques:
¿ Selecting variables and merging these into new datasets
¿ Checking and cleaning variables (manipulate missing data coding)
¿ Generating new variables, recoding,
¿ Creating tables via Stata directly into Word and Excel format
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Assessment Information
| 100% take home exam (students will be required to select variables from different datasets, merge them into one usable dataset, apply weights and produce basic descriptive tables in word following very specific guidelines. Stata syntax used for the assignment will have to be submitted). |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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