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Stata 11 Sample Session Section 0 – File structure and Basic Operations for Stata 11 commands from the file, without having to recreate or type them again. If you make changes to the command file that you wish to keep, make sure you save them to disk again. Caution: From Windows Explorer, if you double-click on a “.do” file, the Stata program will open and run all the commands in the do-file immediately. The do-file will not be opened. To open a “do” file from Windows Explorer, right click on the file name and choose “edit”. The application “STATA” will open and the “do” file will be opened in the Do-File Editor. When you have opened a do-file in this manner, STATA automatically executes the command which you can see in the Results window. B) The Data Editor Window Stata stores your data in a data file. In addition to the values themselves, a data file contains such things as variable labels and value labels, formatting information, missing-value specifications, notes, etc. Before you can do any data analysis in Stata 11, you must first tell Stata to open a Data file. Select File from the menu, select Open, highlight a data file (example: c-hh.dta) and click on Open Data Editor window The edit command doedit ….\nameofdofile.do The command is immediately run. The data in the file are now available to be viewed in the Data Editor window. In the Review window you see the command that opened the data file. In the Variables window you see the list of variables that are available. There are 2 methods that you can use to look at the data. The first opens the file in the Data Editor window. In this window you can manually change the data, so be careful when you use this method. The other method opens the data in a browser window where you cannot change any of the values, but you can sort and look at the data. 1. The first method to view the data is to open the Data Editor window. Click on the Data Editor button or in the Command window, you can type edit and press . If value labels have been assigned to the values in a variable, you will see the value label rather than the actual value. Below is an example of a data file with value labels displayed for some variables and values only for other variables. 12 Open
Stata 11 Sample Session Section 0 – File structure and Basic Operations for Stata 11 Note that some of the data are words and others are numbers. Those variables with words are showing the value labels for the values. If you want to see the values rather than the labels, place your cursor at the top of one of the columns and . Choose Value Labels, Hide all Value Labels. If you want to hide variables or see only certain variables, there are options to Hide Selected Variables. or Show Only Selected Variables. You can now look at the variable properties within the data 13
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