Intro in Stata – Quiz 7

Quiz Question Explanations

Question 1

If you didn’t highlight any lines in the .do file, then Stata will attempt to execute all commands in order. If Stata runs into an error while executing the .do file, then it will stop at that point and not attempt to execute any further lines.

If you do highlight some lines, then Stata will attempt to execute those lines only.

Question 2

‘use’ is how Stata imports Stata datasets (which end in the ‘.dta’ extension), and the ‘clear’ option tells Stata to clear any existing dataset in memory (if you have a dataset in memory and do not include the ‘clear’ option, then Stata will return an error).

This command returns an error for you because your computer (probably) does not have a file path like the one specified here: “C:UsersJeffDropbox (IDinsight)Technical
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cd “C:UsersJeffDropbox (IDinsight)Technical
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use “EG DIB_Main Student Data.dta”, clear