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

Stata 11 Sample Session Section 2 – Restructuring Data Files – Table Lookup & Aggregation
*open log file
capture log close
log using log_session2, append
The Do-file editor window will open.
2. Click on the yellow file folder tool and select the
file session2.do
3. Click on Open
You can then re-execute these same commands or edit
them as you wish.
There are 2 icons on the tool bar: and . You can
block lines in the do-file and click on either of these
icons. The first icon (“Run Selected LInes”
the commands you’ve blocked but in the Results
) runs
window you do not see the commands or any output from
analysis. The second icon (“Do Selected Lines”
runs the commands you’ve blocked and in the Results
)
window you can see which commands were run as well
as the output from any analysis.
Your SESSION2.DO should look similar to lines below;
your documentation comments may not match exactly
what has been included in this listing. Comments start
with “/*” at the beginning of each comment and ending
each comment with a */. You can also just use an “*” if
the command is one line.
/*STATA do file – section 2 – Cross-sectional Stata Tutorial
Purpose: Calculate food production in calories per adult equivalent per day
M Beaver - January 2009 */
/* Tasks: 1) Compute total kgs produced, compute value of production in calories for specific food crops and
aggregate to the household level to obtain total food calories produced
2) Compute adult equivalents and aggregate to the household level
3) Merge the two files and calculate food production in calories per adult equivalent per day
4) Produce a table showing average food production in calories per adult
equivalent in quartiles for each district */
/* Stata recommends you include the version that the do file was written in */
version 11
clear all
macro drop _all
*modify next command to match the directory you are using
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\aec_user\My Documents\StataTraining\data"
* turn off "more" so the whole file will run
set more off
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*Step 1
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