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 |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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. |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
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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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