This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in Stata and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. The manual complements the textbook, Understanding Political Science Statistics: Observa
tions and Expectations in Political Analysis , by Peter Galderisi, making it easy to use alongside the book in a course or as a stand-alone guide to using Stata.
Ellen C. Seljan demonstrates how to run commands in Stata for different kinds of research questions and shows the results of the analyses, using lots of annotated screenshots from Stata version 12 (but compatible with all
versions, including Stata Small). Students will be guided through standard processes replete with examples and exercises to ready them for future work in political science research.
The diverse group of data sets provided include subsamples of both the 2008 and 2012 American National Election Studies, a Eurobarometer survey, single-year and longitudinal congressional district fifi les, the 2012 Comparative
Congressional Election Study, and a comparative, crossnational country file.
Versions with reduced case numbers and variables are also included that are compatible with Stata Small. This manual (and a parallel SPSS manual) are available as stand-alone products or packaged with the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics , and data sets are available at www.routledge.com/cw/galderisi.