STATA 11 for Windows SAMPLE SESSION - Food Security Group ...

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
list in 1 lists first observation
list in -1 lists last observation
list in 2/4 lists observations 2 through 4
list in -3/-2 lists 2 observations starting with the 3 rd
from the last observation.
To limit the listing to a specific criterion use the “if” key
word. Examples are:
list district vil hh mem ca3 if ca3 > 70
list district vil hh mem ca2 ca3 if ca3 < 15 & ca2 < 3
If the variables you want to list are in the order in the file
that you want to see, rather than list each of the names, you
can type the first variable, then a dash (-), then the last
variable in the list, e.g.
list district-ca3 if ca3 < 15 & ca2 < 3
If we want to see the observations with the five lowest
values and five highest values, we would first sort by that
variable and list the first five cases and the last five cases.
For example, if the question is: What is the age of the 5
youngest head of households and what is the age of the 5
oldest head of households?
Stata commands:
sort ca2 ca3
list district vil hh mem ca1 ca2 ca3 in 1/5
gsort -ca2 +ca3
list district vil hh mem ca1 ca2 ca3 in -5/-1
Reminder: after any command built, we will copy the
command into the Do-file Editor window and switch back
to the menu box and run the command.
Apply what you've just learned about descriptive statistics
by doing the following exercise.
Exercise 1.1 Run descriptive statistics on another sample file. Use the
production questionnaire - Table IV, whose data are in file
C-Q4.DTA.
Hints:
a. make C-Q4.DTA your working data file.
b. Use the Summarize command for continuous
variables, and tab1 for categorical variables.
c. Prod is a categorical variable.
d. Quantities (p1b, p2b, ...) are continuous variables.
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