STATA

XTGRAPHS

identical data sets

dta_equal : comparing two datasets if they are identical or not

stata cleaning video

codebook,problems
useful...
and hwo to clean $ or blanks,etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEs2zCgnVg

dates and times

useful commands:

1. help dates_and_times

Fro example: You have a date stored in "date", an example being "22/7/2010".  In this case, you want to create an SIF(format stata understands) date instead of a datetime.  You type

               . gen eventdate = date(mystr, "DMY")

and     then type  so that stata displays the dates in a human readable format.

   format eventdate %td