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stata-tools

Various scripts for Stata

  • cleanstates.ado: converts state variables to FIPS state code
    • can figure out state abbreviations and full state names
    • note that this creates a numeric FIPS with state name labels; the proper FIPS specification is a two-character string variable with a leading zero
  • countyfipsrecode.ado: recodes county FIPS codes based on changes in county-equivalent jurisdictions
    • present-oriented for use in 2016
    • very much a draft and unusable at this point
  • grepstr.ado: runs grep on string variable and returns new variable with matches
    • requires shell access to grep (Mac, Linux, etc.)
    • allows Stata 13 long strings
    • currently very inefficient, but Stata's regex is pretty limited
  • shellout.ado: exports output of shell command to a local
    • useful for more powerful regular expressions
    • this is a rewrite of Nikos Askitas's ashell taking advantage of Stata 13's long-string support
  • stbatch.ado: batch convert files to Stata format using StatTransfer
    • requires Roger Newson's stcmd and that path be set to StatTransfer CLI app (e.g., global StatTransfer_path /Applications/StatTransfer11/st)

Feel free to contribute by making a pull request.