Stata learning resources and training courses

This page provides updates about available learning resources and upcoming Stata training courses in South Africa.

Getting Started

The Introduction to Stata Basics webpage is a comprehensive resource designed to assist new and existing Stata users in mastering the software. It offers structured guidance on various aspects of using Stata, categorised into sections mirroring Stata’s capabilities: data management, graphics, data analysis, and reporting. Each section features worked examples that show command syntax, usage of common options, and interpretation of results, alongside deeper insights to ensure thorough understanding.

Key topics covered include:

• Basics: Starting with Stata, finding help, and using example datasets.
• Importing and Exporting Data: Methods to handle data from Excel, CSV, SPSS, SAS, and websites, including Federal Reserve Economic Data.
• Data Manipulation: Techniques for labelling, customising display formats, rounding data, converting data types, and creating new variables.
• Immediate Commands: Calculators for statistical tests and measures.
• Visualisation: Creating pie charts, bar charts, box plots, histograms, and scatterplots.
• Regression Modelling and Visualisation: Guidance on simple linear regression, using factor-variable notation, and exploring interactions with the `margins` and `marginsplot` commands.

Visit the Introduction to Stata Basics webpage to start learning and enhancing your Stata skills.

Stata learning resources

Learn Stata by enrolling for one of StataCorp's convenient web-based courses or find short courses offered by independent sources in your country.

Available NetCourses

• NetCourse 101: Introduction to Stata
  An introductory 6-week course that teaches how to use Stata interactively.
• NetCourse 120: Statistical Graphics Using Stata
  An introductory 6-week course that teaches Stata's statistical graphics features in the context of data analysis.
• NetCourse 151: Introduction to Stata Programming
  An introductory 6-week course that teaches Stata data-analysis programming to those who have a basic knowledge of using Stata interactively.
• NetCourse 251: Writing Your Own Stata Commands
  An advanced 7-week course that teaches how to add new commands.
• NetCourse 461: Univariate Time Series with Stata
  An introductory 7-week course that teaches the practical aspects of time series that are most needed by practitioners and applied researchers.
• NetCourse 471: Introduction to Panel Data Using Stata
  An introductory 6-week course that teaches the practical and conceptual aspects that are fundamental for practitioners and applied researchers who want to perform rigorous panel-data analysis.
• NetCourse 631: Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata
  An introductory 7-week course that teaches concepts such as censoring, truncation, hazard rates, and survivor functions, as well as the analysis of survival data.

For more information please visit the Stata website.

Free, short and convenient webinars to learn about Stata from the experts. Visit the webinar page on Stata’s website to see the available webinars.

Upcoming specialised webinars:

Ready. Set. Go Stata.

22 April 2025, 12:00 p.m. CDT
4 June 2025, 11:00 a.m. CDT

New to Stata? Ready to analyze your data but not sure where to start? If you’re wondering:

How do I get data into Stata? What tools are available for manipulating and cleaning data? How can I create and customize scatterplots, histograms, and other graphs? How do I fit a model and graph the results? How do I find resources for learning Stata?

Join us for this one-hour webinar to get answers to these questions and more. Ask questions live, or get started now by watching this tutorial.

Latent class analysis using Stata

29 April 2025, 11:00 a.m. CDT

Latent class analysis (LCA) identifies unobserved groups, or classes, within a population. This webinar introduces Stata’s LCA features and demonstrates how to use Stata’s gsem command for LCA, report class-specific marginal means and membership probabilities, compare models with different numbers of classes, and calculate goodness-of-fit statistics.

Tips and tricks

22 May 2025, 2:00 p.m. CDT
29 July 2025, 11:00 a.m. CDT

Discover some of Stata’s hidden (and not-so-hidden) gems, including labels three ways, standardizing graphs with the Graph Recorder, interpreting and understanding your model, turning interactive use into reproducible results, and working with Word. Learn how to make your Stata workflow more efficient and effective.

Creating graphs with Stata

10 June 2025, 11:00 a.m. CDT

Want to create insightful graphs to explore your data and model assumptions? This webinar covers graphing distributions and relationships between variables, creating summary statistic and diagnostic graphs, and customizing, layering, and combining graphs.

Introduction to causal inference and treatment effects

9 July 2025, 10:00 a.m. CDT

This webinar introduces causal inference concepts, including counterfactuals and potential outcomes. We demonstrate how to use Stata’s teffects suite for propensity-score matching, inverse-probability weighting, regression adjustment, doubly robust estimators, and nearest-neighbor matching.

The Stata News User's corner highlights interesting, useful, or just plain fun user contributions. Visit the User’s Corner on the Stata website for complete archive of all contributions.

Stata has a large collection of video tutorials freely available from the official Stata YouTube channel.

Get started with a quick tour of Stata:

Handy reference sheets covering Stata syntax, data processing, programming, etc.

Visit https://www.stata.com/bookstore/stata-cheat-sheets to download.

Upcoming Stata training courses in South Africa

Keep an eye on our website for updates on future training courses as they become available.