Stata resources
Some of my favorite Stata references
Some of my favorite Stata references
- Fundamentals of data analysis and visualization: Very slick guide to beginning in Stata, including downloadable cheat sheets for frequently used commands, also video lessons on using Stata
- UCLA’s Stata resources: The first website I send people to for Stata resources; includes many examples that walk through analyses
- Statalist forum: Start by searching the archives
- A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics: My favorite Stata book; unfortunately no web version
- OpenSDP data cleaning tutorials: Data cleaning often takes up much more time than analysis, but is taught less frequently — check out these tutorial modules to fill in gaps in your data cleaning knowledge
Publicly available data
Students may find these links useful for finding data for class projects; suggestions for additional data sources welcome!
- NAEP: National Assessment of Educational Progress
- NCES: National Center for Education Statistics; other national data sources including ECLS-K (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study), ELS (Education Longitudinal Study), HSLS (High School Longitudinal Study, NELS (National Education Longitudinal Study), and SASS (Schools and Staffing)
- IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System — college funding, enrollment, graduation, student characteristics
- CCD: Common Core of Data — school, district, and state enrollment, demographic, funding and other information
- MET: Measures of Effective Teaching — public data from a large scale experiment on teacher effectiveness
- Data repositories: Harvard Dataverse, University of Michigan ICPSR
- SEDA: Stanford Education Data Archive — amazing new collection of data at the state, county, and district level for the entire country
- UKCPR: University of Kentucky national welfare data — state level data 1980-2017 on population characteristics, unemployment, poverty, and more
- Correlates of State Policy
- State Policy Innovation Database: state policies starting in 1691 (!)
- Google Dataset Search (Beta): haven’t tried it yet, but seems promising!
- Urban Institute data portal: slick interface for formatted data sets from federal sources including IPEDS and CCD, feeds right into Stata
- Social Explorer: Census available at the school district level (institutional access through library)
- Opportunity Insights: public versions of data from a number of projects lead by Raj Chetty and collaborators
- EDFacts: LEA and school level achievement and high school graduation rates, collected by the US Department of Education
- School Finance Indicators Database: At both state and district level
Miscellaneous academic and job seeking advice
- Writing, presentation, and refereeing advice: Gathered by Amanda Agan, various sources
- How to write a personal statement for PhD applications: by Eve Ewing
- Tips for TC students and grads on getting a data analysis job: by Sarah Cohodes; access restricted to those with a TC Google account (comments/suggestions welcome)
- Ed Policy Organizations for Job Seekers, by Beth Schueler
- Academic advice, mostly on the PhD: Links from Alex Eble, economics/development focused but helpful for all
- A Field Guide to Grad School: Book by Jessica Calarco, highly recommended for applicants to and students in doctoral programs
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