Stata 11 help for webuse help webuse dialog: webuse ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title [D] webuse -- Use dataset from Stata web site Syntax Load dataset over the web webuse ["]filename["] [, clear] Report URL from which datasets will be obtained webuse query Specify URL from which dataset will be obtained webuse set [http://]url[/] Reset URL to default webuse set Menu File > Example Datasets... Description webuse filename loads the specified dataset, obtaining it over the web. By default, datasets are obtained from http://www.stata-press.com/data/r11/. If filename is specified without a suffix, .dta is assumed. webuse query reports the URL from which datasets will be obtained. webuse set allows you to specify the URL to be used as the source for datasets. webuse set without arguments resets the source to http://www.stata-press.com/data/r11/. Option clear specifies that it is okay to replace the data in memory, even though the current data have not been saved to disk. Examples Report URL from which datasets will be obtained . webuse query Change URL from which datasets will be obtained . webuse set http://www.zzz.edu/users/~sue Reset URL to the default . webuse set Load the lifeexp dataset that is stored at http://www.stata-press.com/data/r11 . webuse lifeexp Equivalent to above command . use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r11/lifeexp Also see Manual: [D] webuse Help: [U] 1.2.1 Same datasets, [D] sysuse, [D] use