What does blue data mean in Stata?

value labels
Almost all the variables in this data set are in blue, meaning they have value labels. Some of these are like the value labels you saw before. For example, the sex variable has 1 labeled as “male” and 2 labeled as “female.” However, most of the value labels only label the missing values.

What does red data mean in Stata?

It’s a common mistake when importing data to accidentally make Stata think a numeric variable is a string. The values of string variables are red in the data browser (like make in this data set) so if you start seeing red where you shouldn’t you know you’ve got a problem.

Is it hard to learn Stata?

Stata is both easy to learn and also very powerful. Stata is easy to learn in two ways. First, it offers a point-and-click interface that you can use if you do not know the name of a command, or the particulars of using it.

Why is my data yellow in Stata?

White text is what you’ve asked Stata to do. Green text is good news. Yellow text is variable names and values. Red text is error messages.

Why are my variables yellow in Stata?

Yellow text is variable names and values. Red text is error messages. Light blue text is a clickable link.

Why is my variable red?

Re: RED part in Variable Names Because the editor is just using some text scanning rules someone created to highlight code. So according to its rules that word VAR should be displayed in red. It is NOT actually pre-compiling the code to figure out how each character/word in the program is actually going to be used.

What does clear mean in Stata?

“clear” tells Stata to erase the previous dataset.

Is SPSS or Stata better?

Stata allows for normal analysis procedures, while SPSS is ideal for large amounts of data and multivariate analysis. SPSS is the better choice for social and medical science fields, as opposed to econometrics. Many professionals turn to SPSS for the direct generation of outputs for reports.

Which is better R or Stata?

Stata is well-designed and it makes it easy to perform simple analyses but Stata becomes more cumbersome when you want to program a non-standard task. R on the other hand requires a lot of basic skills before you can do even the simplest analysis but comes into its own for more complex tasks.