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Latinobarómetro Data Analysis Resource for Economists

Explore Latin American public opinion survey data on economics from Latinobarómetro for statistical analysis and online research. Download and analyze data files in Stata, SPSS, or SAS formats. Use online tools for simple analyses and access annual reports.

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Latinobarómetro Data Analysis Resource for Economists

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  1. DATA ANALYSIS

  2. Load Latino American Barometer • Go to library, resources for your subject, library, then economics, then: • Statistics & Data

  3. Then: • Latinobarometro: Latin American public opinion survey - to change the language, click on the English/Espagnol tab. Statistical information is available via Data Bank, Documents & Publications tabs - you can also use the Latinobarometro to conduct simple online analyses of statistics.  The site also features annual reports.

  4. Then click on english at the top • InicioCorporaciónBanco de datosAnálisis en LíneaDocumentosPublicacionesContactoEnglish

  5. Then ‘data bank’ • HomeCorporationData BankOnline analysisDocumentsPublicationsContactEspañol

  6. Choose 2009 and stata/se file -dta • Download Data Files • Data files are available for different years and in various formats and in both Spanish - the official language - and English. • Latinobarómetro 2010 NEW • Select a format: [SPSS file - SAV][Stata/SE file - DTA][SAS V11 file] • Latinobarómetro 2009 REVISED (Labelled Region, City, Policital Parties + Spain's data) • Select a format: [SPSS file - SAV][Stata/SE file - DTA][SAS V11 file]

  7. Then download file • Download file: LATINOBARÓMETRO 2009 - DATA FILE - STATA/SE V11 • Please, take note of the following:The file cannot be redistributed • The file is compressed using Winzip. You need to decompress it before using it. • The file contains data at the respondent level. If you want to see ellaborated tables, you should better use the online analysis option. • In order to open this file, you will need the corresponding statistical program (SPSS, Stata, SAS, and so on) • Click the following link to begin download:Download file

  8. You are given option, open or save, choose save • In the browser choose a suitable place to save, could be a flash drive • Now open laptop/pc search and find the file you have just downloaded. There are 4 files • 2 in spanish and 2 in english. Two each of data files and the questionnaire. • Copy/move the english files to another directory

  9. Now open stata • Click file (top left menu bar) then open from menu • Locate the data file you have just downloaded and click on it:

  10. It has not worked, not enough memory. Block copy the use instriuction and….

  11. Remember its case sensitive be careful with upper and lower case letters. set mem 200000 use "C:\Users\John\Desktop\courses\masters\LAT_Latinobarometro2008_dta\Latinobarometro_2008_eng.dta", clear OK now you have opened the data. Type summ t*

  12. And this describes all data beginning with t

  13. Now open questionnaire and we see: • Q5ST. Do you consider the country’s present economic • situation to be much better, a little better, about • the same, a little worse or much worse than 12 months • ago? (WAIT FOR ANSWER AND TICK ONLY ONE) • Much better.............1 • A little better.........2 • About the same..........3 • A little worse..........4 • Much worse..............5 • DNK.....................8 DON’T READ • DNA.....................0

  14. Q28ST. (SHOW CARD 6) Please look at this card and tell • me, how much trust you have in each of the following • groups, institutions or persons: a lot (1), some (2), • a little (3) or no trust (4)? (READ EACH ALTERNATIVE • AND TICK ONE FOR EACH) • L S L N DNK DNA • Q28ST.A. National Congress/ • Parliament................ 1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.B. Judiciary.........1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.C. Political parties.1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.D. Armed forces......1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.E. Public • Administration.............1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.F. Local government..1 2 3 4 8 0 • Q28ST.G The church.........1 2 3 4 8 0

  15. Lets do a tabulation of two of the variables • Tab2 Q5ST Q28ST.B. • It did not work. • Look at the data base using data editor • The variables seemes to be called p not Q. Try it: • describe p5st p28*

  16. Good, so then…..

  17. This is part of the output tab2 p5st p28st_a

  18. Now a histogram histogram p5st

  19. Exclude don’t knows and no answers histogram p5st if p5st>0 & p5st<6

  20. & with a kernel density histogram p5st if p5st>0 & p5st<6,kdensity, which is not very interesting

  21. A kernel density os like a continuous histogram. Try it on a continuous variable: age. histogram edad if edad>0 & edad<90,kdensity Interesting

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