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A Stata package to handle metadata

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  • Gustavo Iglésias

    (Microdata Research Laboratory, Banco de Portugal)

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In this presentation, I offer a brief tour of mdata, a Stata community-contrubuted package that provides a set of tools to help users handle metadata in large and complex datasets. The package uses an Excel file to store all metadata related to a dataset. This is particularly useful to edit and modify metadata outside of Stata, and also to deal with datasets stored in non-Stata format. The presentation will focus on the most important features of the package, namely on how to extract metadata from data in memory, perform consistency checks on the metadata, apply metadata to data in memory, and compare and combine metadata from two datasets.

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  • Gustavo Iglésias, 2022. "A Stata package to handle metadata," Italian Stata Users' Group Meetings 2022 09, Stata Users Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:isug22:09
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