Intro to Stata – Quiz 2

Quiz Question Explanations

Question 1

child_caste_cat is an int variable, which is a type of numeric variable. You can see this by entering the command ‘codebook child_caste_cat’ or ‘describe child_caste_cat’

Question 2

OBC is the most common caste category for children in this dataset. You can see this by entering the command ‘codebook child_caste_cat’ or ‘tabulate child_caste_cat’

Question 3

You can view the value for [variable] of the nth observation by entering the command ‘list [variable] in [n]’. In this case the command is ‘list total_bl in 8’. You could also ‘browse’ the dataset to get this value. Note that if you changed the sort order of the dataset, then the 8th observation may be a different one than in the original sort order.

Question 4

There are multiple variables that start with the word ‘math’ (e.g. math_bl, math_ely1, math_ely2), and so Stata does not know which variable you are referring to in this command.

The command is telling Stata to list the values of variable ‘math’ for observations 1 through 5. ‘list’ is a valid command, and ‘in’ is part of the command that tells Stata to look in observations 1 through 5 (which can be shortened to 1/5).