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| Preface | |
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| Motivation and Purpose | |
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| About the National Study of Youth and Religion | |
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| A Note on Versions | |
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| A Note on Notation | |
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| References | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations for Working with Stata | |
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| Getting to Know Stata 12 | |
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| What You See | |
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| Getting Started With Data Files | |
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| Opening and Saving Stata Data Files | |
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| Data Browser and Editor | |
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| Entering Your Own Data | |
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| Using Different Types of Data Files in Stata | |
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| Types of Variables in Data Files | |
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| Exercises | |
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| The Essentials | |
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| Intuition and Stata Commands | |
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| The Structure of Stata Commands | |
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| Command | |
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| Variables | |
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| if Statements | |
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| Options | |
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| Executing a Command Using the Command Window | |
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| The 5 Essential Commands | |
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| tabulate | |
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| summary | |
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| generate | |
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| replace (if) | |
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| recode | |
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| Nonessential, Everyday Commands | |
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| rename | |
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| drop/keep (if) | |
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| describe | |
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| display | |
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| set more off | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Do Files and Data Management | |
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| What Is a Do File? | |
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| Opening and Saving Do Files | |
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| Translation From the Command Window | |
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| Getting the Most Out of Do Files | |
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| Data Management | |
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| Working With Labels | |
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| Missing Data | |
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| Using String Variables | |
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| Saving Results | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Quantitative Analysis with Stata | |
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| Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Frequency Distributions | |
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| Histograms, Bar Graphs, and Pie Charts | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency and Variability | |
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| Box Plots | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Relationships Between Nominal and Ordinal Variables | |
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| Cross-Tabulations | |
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| Chi-Square Test | |
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| Measures of Association | |
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| Elaboration | |
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| Multivariate Bar Graphs | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Relationships Between Different Measurement Levels | |
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| Testing Means | |
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| Confidence Intervals | |
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| Testing a Specific Value (One-Sample t Test) | |
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| Testing the Mean of Two Groups (Independent-Samples t Test) | |
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| Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Relationships Between Interval-Ratio Variables | |
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| Correlation | |
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| Scatterplots | |
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| Linear Regression | |
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| Multiple Linear Regression | |
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| Dichotomous (Dummy) Variables and Linear Regression | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Enhancing Your Command Repertoire | |
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| Stata Help Files | |
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| Ways to Search and Access | |
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| Structure and Language | |
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| Advanced Convenience Commands | |
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| tab, gen(newvar) | |
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| egen | |
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| mark and markout | |
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| alpha, gen(newvar) | |
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| Summary of Commands Used in This Chapter | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Appendix: Getting to Know Stata 11 | |
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| Chapter Exercise Solutions | |
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| "How To" Index | |
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| About the Author | |