LABCENSWDI: Stata module to automatically manage datasets obtained from US Census 2000 and World Development Indicators databases

P. Wilner Jeanty ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: labcenswdi automatically manages datasets obtained from databases providing variable descriptions on the second row. Such databases include, but not limited to, the US Census 2000 Summary Files, the American Community Survey, and the World Development (WDI). While renaming variables with the user's specified variable names, labcenswdi manages the variable descriptions including removing them from the second row to place them into Stata variable labels, reducing their length to 80 characters or less, and saving them to a text file. The new variable names should be supplied in newvarlist (see syntax) if the user elects to replace the default variable names with more meaningful names.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9.2
Keywords: data management; census data; World Development Indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12-01
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install labcenswdi". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/d/dc_dec_2000_sf1_u_data1.txt sample data file (text/plain)

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