Survey Data Analysis Using Stata

Description

This course covers how to use Stata for survey data analysis assuming a fixed population. It begins by reviewing the sampling methods used to collect survey data, and then discusses how they act in the estimation of totals, ratios, and regression coefficients. It then covers variance estimation methods implemented in Stata’s survey estimation commands. The course will also cover strata with a single sampling unit, certainty sampling units, subpopulation estimation, and poststratification. Interactive Stata sessions are dispersed between lectures.

Price: $1,295  

We offer a 15% discount for group enrollments of three or more participants. Please contact us at training@stata.com for details.

Course topics

• Sampling
• Sampling design characteristics
  • Cluster sampling
  • Stratified sampling
  • Sampling without replacement
• Regression with survey data
• Variance estimation
  • Linearization
  • Balanced repeated replication (BRR)
  • Jackknife
• Special types of sampling units
  • Strata with a single sampling unit
  • Certainty units
• Restricted sample and subpopulation estimation
• Poststratification

Learning outcomes

Attendees of this workshop will walk away with the following knowledge:

• The difference between Stata’s standard estimation commands and svy estimation commands
• How to create SRS and stratified samples from available lists
• How to use Stata’s svyset command to identify the survey characteristics present in the dataset. These characteristics include:
  • Sampling units at each sampling stage
  • Strata at each sampling stage
  • Sampling fractions used in the finite population correction when units are sampled with out replacement at each sampling stage
  • Replication weight variables
  • Poststrata and their associated sizes
• How to handle certainty units
• The available choices for handling strata with one sampling unit
• The difference between restricted sample estimation and subpopulation estimation

Prerequisite

Knowledge of Stata is not required, but attendees are assumed to have some statistical knowledge, such as what is typically covered in an introductory statistics course. This workshop is geared toward data analysis professionals who are not familiar with the survey data features in Stata.

Next session

Currently, there are no scheduled sessions of this course.

Email training@stata.com to request to be notified of future training sessions.

Notes

Enrollment is limited. Computers with Stata installed are provided at all public training sessions. All training courses run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. A continental breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack will also be provided; the breakfast is available before the course begins. All participants are encouraged to bring a USB flash drive to all public training sessions; this is the safest and simplest way to save your work from the session.