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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 1 - Basic functions: Files, Descriptives, Data Transformations
This would tell you, for example, how many females are
The tabulate command
heads of households. The Tabulate command will
produce this type of summary. Make the household
member file, c-q1a.dta, the working data file.
1. Click on the yellow open folder tool at the top left
of the Toolbar
2. Select the file c-q1a.dta.
3. Click on Open to open the file.
4. Copy the command for opening the file which
appears in the Results window, into the Do-file
Editor window.
Reminder: You should add comments to your do-file so
that you can remember what and why you were doing
specific commands when you developed the do-file.
Several days or weeks from now you may not remember.
Comments in a do-file start with slash and then an
asterisk and end with an asterisk and a slash:
/* this is a comment
which runs to two lines */
Stata will not run multiple lines as a command if it begins
with these symbols.
To create a two-way table do the following:
1. From the menus click on
Statistics..
Summaries, Tables & Tests
Tables
Two-way tables with measures of association
The Tabulate2 - two-way tables dialog box opens.
2. In the Row Variable box choose ca2 from the dropdown
choices.
3. In the Column Variable box choose ca4 from the
drop-down choices.
We would like to see row percentages and column
percentages.
4. Under Cell Contents click in the box next to
Within column relative frequencies to put a ✓.
5. Click in the box ✓ next to Within row relative
frequencies.
6. Click on the copy button, switch to the Do-File
Editor and paste the command. Write a comment
and then switch back to the dialog box to click on
the Submit button. The command will be
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