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Stata training courses and resources

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


Upcoming Stata training courses in South Africa

Comprehensive data analysis course using Stata (5 days)

Available course dates:

  • Monday 5 – Saturday 31 October 2020 (4 weeks) — Online
  • Monday 26 – Friday 30 October 2020 (5 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Monday 23 – Friday 27 November 2020 (5 days) — Cape Town, South Africa

Presented by CESAR (Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research)

The course objectives include helping participants to:

  • achieve the understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics;
  • be able to summarise and present data collected in their settings;
  • be able to make inferences from data using Stata.

The course uses a fine blend of didactic lectures, group exercises for every session and two project reports that simulate real life scenarios. Participants will be able to produce and interpret basic and intermediate descriptive and inferential statistics using Stata. As a result, they will be able to take raw data, clean them, summarise them, analyse them and take appropriate action. They will also be able to interpret published research results for needed action.

More Information and Registration
Visit the CESAR website for more information.

Data cleaning and management course using Stata (3 days)

Available course dates:

  • Wednesday 14 – Friday 16 October 2020 (3 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 December 2020 (3 days) — Johannesburg, South Africa

Presented by CESAR (Centre for Statistical Analysis and Research)

This course if for those who want to heighten their knowledge of data management and analysis and improve the quality of their outputs. Priority will be given to participants who have some experience with data analysis using Stata or similar software, as well as those who have attended CESAR’s Stata course in the past.

The course will teach participants the following:

  • Definitions and dimensions of data quality
  • Data management
  • Combining data
  • Learn to fix dates
  • Handling string – inlist, stringmatch, inrange, trim and substring
  • What is special about Stata egen command?
  • Learn to aggregate the data
  • Reshaping data
  • Foreach and forvalues
  • Automatic outputting of results

More Information and Registration
Visit the CESAR website for more information.


Stata learning resources

Stata NetCourses and short courses

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.

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Stata YouTube Channel

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Stata cheat sheets

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

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