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Self-Teaching Materials

Our self-teaching materials, available for the four statistical packages supported in LISSY, are designed to help you get acquainted with programming syntax that you might want to apply to our microdata. So far, the self-teaching packages are only available for the LIS Database. In addition, you will be able to find the syntax of each exercise and a combined syntax for all the exercises in each of the two parts.

STATISTICAL PACKAGE SELF-TEACHING MATERIAL in PDF Exercises syntax files
Stata Self-Teaching Material-Stata-Part I
Self-Teaching Material-Stata-Part II 		Exercises syntax files-Stata-Part I
Exercises syntax files-Stata-Part II
R Self-Teaching Material-R-Part I
Self-Teaching Material-R-Part II		 Exercises syntax files-R-Part I
Exercises syntax files-R-Part II
SPSS Self-Teaching Material-SPSS-Part I
Self-Teaching Material-SPSS-Part II 		Exercises syntax files-SPSS-Part I
Exercises syntax files-SPSS-Part II
SAS Self-Teaching Material-SAS-Part I
Self-Teaching Material-SAS-Part II 		Exercises syntax files-SAS-Part I
Exercises syntax files-SAS-Part II

Sample Files

You may download sample files onto your personal computer in order to check your syntax and debug your programs before submitting them via LISSY. Sample files are for instructional purposes only; do not draw substantive conclusions based on these files. These artificial samples contain sub-samples of two LIS and LWS datasets and consist of a random selection households and their respective household members.

STATISTICAL PACKAGE LIS SAMPLE FILES LWS SAMPLE FILES HELPFUL LINKS
SPSS US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset		 IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset
IT14 Implicate dataset
US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
US16 Implicate dataset		 http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/default.htm
http://www.spss.com/
SAS US16 Format Catalog
US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
IT14 Format Catalog
IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset		 IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset
IT14 Implicate dataset
IT14 Format catalog
US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
US16 Implicate dataset
US16 Format catalog		 http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/default.htm
http://www.sas.com
STATA US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset
MX18 Household dataset
MX18 Individual dataset

 IT14 Household dataset
IT14 Individual dataset
IT14 Implicate dataset
US16 Household dataset
US16 Individual dataset
US16 Implicate dataset		 http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/default.htm
http://stata.com/
R R, in LISSY, works with Stata files. To check your R syntax, please, download the Stata files above and access them through the R readstata13 package http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/
http://www.r-project.org/

Programming Best Practices

In addition to these materials, always keep in mind our Coding Best Practices while writing job requests.