LATINOBAROMETRO: Stata module to load, standardize, and enrich a Latinobarometro survey wave

Jorge Soler-Lopez

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: latinobarometro downloads (or reuses a cached copy of) a single year's Latinobarometro survey wave, loads the English-language .dta file, sanitizes variable names and value-label names that are invalid in Stata (accented/Unicode characters and periods), and optionally: 1. renames every variable to a standardized name that is consistent across survey years, using the official Latinobarometro "Serie de Tiempo" crosswalk file, and 2. merges in World Bank total-population data by country and constructs a population-based sampling weight (wt_lac) suitable for pooled cross-country analysis.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: data management; latinobarometro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-07-15
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install latinobarometro". The module is made available under terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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