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Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Census/Demographics Datasets
Date   Sat, 4 Jan 2014 23:22:53 -0500

Michael Stewart <[email protected]>:

There is related information at:

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19498050/stata-python-downloading-
files-from-a-ftp-site-in-stata-or-in-python (The accepted answer was
supplied by a well-known Statalister.)

2. www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-01/msg00852.html

3. http://blog.stata.com/2010/12/01/automating-web-downloads-and-file-
unzipping/

If files are not in Stata format, you can run StatTransfer commands in
Stata via -shell-.

Steve



On Jan 4, 2014, at 8:09 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

You could start with the help for -use-. The very first example shows
-use- in play reading a .dta file over the internet. The same
principles apply to other forms of data file.

Nick
[email protected]


On 4 January 2014 19:41, Michael Stewart
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a way to download Census/demographics datasets  from Internet
> to stata directly . Thank you very much for your time.
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