Datasets for Stata User’s Guide, Release 8

<font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <a name="top"><hr></a> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" align="center"><tr><td><img src="/images/statapressbug.jpg" height="100" width="100"></td><td><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><h1>Stata 8 User's Guide Datasets</h1></font></td><td><img src="/images/statapressbug.jpg" height="100" width="100"></td></tr></table> <hr> <br><center><h2>Skip to commands from chapter ...<h2></center> <center> <a href="#1" style="text-decoration:none">1 </a> <a href="#2" style="text-decoration:none">2 </a> <a href="#3" style="text-decoration:none">3 </a> <a href="#4" style="text-decoration:none">4 </a> <a href="#5" style="text-decoration:none">5 </a> <a href="#6" style="text-decoration:none">6 </a> <a href="#7" style="text-decoration:none">7 </a> <a href="#8" style="text-decoration:none">8 </a> <a href="#9" style="text-decoration:none">9 </a> <a href="#10" style="text-decoration:none">10 </a> <a href="#11" style="text-decoration:none">11 </a> <a href="#12" style="text-decoration:none">12 </a> <a href="#13" style="text-decoration:none">13 </a> <a href="#14" style="text-decoration:none">14 </a> <a href="#15" style="text-decoration:none">15 </a> <a href="#16" style="text-decoration:none">16 </a> <a href="#17" style="text-decoration:none">17 </a> <a href="#18" style="text-decoration:none">18 </a> <a href="#19" style="text-decoration:none">19 </a> <a href="#20" style="text-decoration:none">20 </a> <a href="#21" style="text-decoration:none">21 </a> <a href="#22" style="text-decoration:none">22 </a> <a href="#23" style="text-decoration:none">23 </a> <a href="#24" style="text-decoration:none">24 </a> <a href="#25" style="text-decoration:none">25 </a> <a href="#26" style="text-decoration:none">26 <a href="#27" style="text-decoration:none">27 </a> <a href="#28" style="text-decoration:none">28 </a> <a href="#29" style="text-decoration:none">29 </a> <a href="#30" style="text-decoration:none">30 </a> <a href="#31" style="text-decoration:none">31 </a> <a href="#32" style="text-decoration:none">32 </a> </center> <p> Datasets used in the Stata Documentation were selected to demonstrate the use of Stata. Datasets were sometimes altered so that a particular feature could be explained. Do not use these datasets for analysis purposes.<br><br><hr> <p> Download instructions: <br><ul> <li>click on a file to download it to a local folder on your machine <li>alternatively, you can first establish an Internet connection, and then, in Stata's Command window type <br><br><ul><b>. webuse filename, clear</b></ul><br> to use the file. You could then save the file with Stata's <b>save</b> command. </ul> <br><hr> <br><a name="3"><h3>Chapter 3 - A brief description of Stata</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="7"><h3>Chapter 7 - Setting the size of memory</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>regsmpl.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/regsmpl.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/regsmpl.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="9"><h3>Chapter 9 - Stata's sample datasets</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>autornd.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/autornd.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/autornd.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>bplong.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/bplong.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/bplong.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>bpwide.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/bpwide.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/bpwide.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>cancer.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/cancer.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/cancer.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>census.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>citytemp.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>educ99gdp.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/educ99gdp.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/educ99gdp.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>gnp96.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a 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width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/uslifeexp2.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/uslifeexp2.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>voter.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/voter.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/voter.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="11"><h3>Chapter 11 - Error messages and return codes</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>citytemp.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="14"><h3>Chapter 14 - Language syntax</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>census12.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census12.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census12.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>citytemp.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>citytemp3.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp3.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/citytemp3.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="15"><h3>Chapter 15 - Formats: controlling how data are displayed</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>format.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/format.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/format.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="17"><h3>Chapter 17 - Matrix expressions</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="18"><h3>Chapter 18 - Printing and preserving output</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>census.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="19"><h3>Chapter 19 - Do-files</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>census5.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census5.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/census5.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="21"><h3>Chapter 21 - Programming Stata</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="23"><h3>Chapter 23 - Estimation and post-estimation commands</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto2.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto2.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto2.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>auto.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a 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href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto7.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto7.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="26"><h3>Chapter 26 - Commands for dealing with strings</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>hbp2.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/hbp2.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/hbp2.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="28"><h3>Chapter 28 - Commands for dealing with categorical variables</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>states3.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/states3.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/states3.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br><a name="30"><h3>Chapter 30 - Overview of survey estimation</h3></a> <ul> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td width="150"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"> <li>nhanes2f.dta</font></td><td width="400"><font face="arial,helvetica,helv,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/nhanes2f.dta">http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/nhanes2f.dta</a></font></td> </tr></table> </ul> <br><hr><br> <p> StataCorp gratefully acknowledges that some datasets in the Reference Manuals are proprietary and have been used in our printed documentation with the express permission of the copyright holders. If any copyright holder believes that by making these datasets available to the public, StataCorp is in violation of the letter or spirit of any such agreement, please contact <a href="mailto:webmaster@stata-press.com"> webmaster@stata-press.com</a> and any such materials will be removed from this web page. </font>