Managing the U.S. Census 2000 and World Development Indicators databases for statistical analysis in Stata

P. Wilner Jeanty ()

Stata Journal, 2011, vol. 11, issue 4, 589-604

Abstract: This article introduces a new Stata command, labcenswdi, to automatically manage databases that provide variable descriptions on the second row in a dataset. While renaming all variables and converting them from string to numeric, labcenswdi automatically manages the variable descriptions including removing them from the second row to place them into Stata variable labels and saving them to a text file. The process yields a dataset ready for statistical analysis. I illustrate how this command can be used to efficiently manage datasets obtained from the U.S. Census 2000 and the World Development Indicators databases. Copyright 2011 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: labcenswdi; U.S. Census 2000; World Development Indicators; databases; data management; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
Note: to access software from within Stata, net describe http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-4/dm0060/
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0060

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:11:y:2011:i:4:p:589-604

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.stata-journal.com/subscription.html

Access Statistics for this article

Stata Journal is currently edited by Nicholas J. Cox and Stephen P. Jenkins

More articles in Stata Journal from StataCorp LLC
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F. Baum () and Lisa Gilmore ().