From the course: Introduction to Stata 15

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Importing data

Importing data - Stata Tutorial

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Importing data

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- [Instructor] In this session we'll explore how to load data and import data into Stata. The basics of loading data are fairly straightforward but Stata offers some powerful import features and also some easy copy and paste options. In this session we'll focus on both menu options in Stata and on three particular Stata commands. The command clear allows us to wipe all data in our current Stata session. Be careful, there is no back button in Stata and executing this command will remove all your data in your current session. The command use is used to load data sets and it's fairly easy to use. The command sysuse is a sibling of use and it's actually a command that we'll be using a lot in this course but you'll probably never use for real. Sysuse stands for system use and allows you to load the training data sets that come inbuilt with Stata. And finally, import is a command that allows you to import non-Stata data files into Stata. So let's head over to Stata and load some data. I…

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