Event Details
Event Title Introduction to Stata (Online)
Location Online via Zoom
Sponsor H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time 08/25/2025 - 08/27/2025 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Event Price
Cutoff Date 08/23/2025 Must register before this date
For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu
Event Presenters
Name Title  
Ruy Manrique Stata helpdesk consultant for Odum Institute
 
This 5-hour (8/25/2025 and 8/27/2025; 12pm – 2:30pm each day) course will be offered online only. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded.

This course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. By the end of the course, participants will be able to perform the following:
• Use Stata’s Graphical User Interference (GUI) with dialog boxes
• Run Stata commands from the command window and from scripts (“do” files)
• Enter, transfer, and save data in different formats, e.g., Excel, SAS, SPSS, text files
• Inspect the contents of a Stata dataset
• Append, merge, and sort datasets
• Identify and clean duplicate records
• Calculate new variables
• Create and manage labels for variables and values
• Recode variables
• Work with blocks of observations (“by” processing)
• Perform row-wise calculations (groups of columns)
• Collapse data into summary tables
• Reshape between long and wide formats
• Save and reproduce your work with “do” files
• Obtain descriptive statistics
• Create graphs and tables
• Run basic statistical analyses, e.g., Ordinary Least Squares regression, correlation matrices, Chi-square tests, t-tests