Learning Stata

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Tutorials, videos, books, and do-file guides for learning Stata, with three suggested starting points.

Published

31 October 2026

This guide collects free and library-accessible material for students learning Stata in NYU Abu Dhabi methods courses. Begin with the three picks under Start here, then move to the sections on tutorials, do-files, video, and reporting as your projects need them. Software downloads and working habits are on the Stata page.

Start here

Princeton University Online Stata Tutorial — Princeton University’s online Stata tutorial, chosen here as a starting point for beginners.
UCLA Advanced Research Computing: Stata Learning Modules — Self-paced Stata modules from UCLA’s research computing group, useful for practising one task at a time.
Resources for learning Stata from Stata Corp — The software maker’s own list of ways to learn Stata, including training, books, and videos.

Tutorials and course notes

NYUAD Stata Resources Page — NYU library research guide to Stata, with software access and learning material for the NYU community.
Stata Tutorial by Germán Rodríguez — Princeton’s Germán Rodríguez covers the Stata interface, do-files, data management, tables, graphics, and programming.
Introduction to Stata, Social Science Computing Cooperative, UW-Madison — Introductory Stata notes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s computing cooperative, starting with the first lesson.
Stata Highlights, Richard Williams, Notre Dame Sociology — Excerpts from Richard Williams’s graduate statistics course, with handouts and data files on regression, logistic regression, and more.
Introduction to Stata 15, LinkedIn Learning — Video course on Stata 15; NYU login required for free access.
The Stata Guide on Medium — Medium publication of Stata articles; some pieces sit behind Medium’s paywall.
Using Stata’s Frames feature to build an analytical dataset, Tim Plante — Blog post on combining several datasets in memory with Stata’s frames to assemble one analysis dataset (archived copy).

Writing good do-files

The Do’s and Don’ts of a Do-file, Emmanuel Milet — Paris School of Economics guide to writing do-files that others can read and rerun (archived copy).
Stata for Researchers: Do Files — University of Wisconsin-Madison computing cooperative notes on writing and running do-files (archived copy).
Stata Coding Guide, Julian Reif — Julian Reif’s guide to setting up a replication-ready Stata workflow, linked at its section of Stata coding tips.

Video

Learning Stata, Steffen’s Classroom playlist — YouTube playlist of Stata lessons for beginners and for users brushing up.
Stata Corp YouTube Channel — Official YouTube channel of the company that makes Stata.
Video tutorials on Stata — Stata Corp’s list of video tutorials on Stata.
Introduction to Stata (UCLA workshop video) — Recorded workshop on basic Stata use, with slides and a do-file on UCLA’s workshop page.
Sunday Stata Tips playlist — YouTube playlist titled Sunday Stata Tips, a collection of Stata tips.

Books and manuals

Bittmann, Felix. Stata: A Really Short Introduction (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019) — Short introductory book on Stata; the ebook can be accessed from the library website.
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, downloadable materials — Stata’s page of datasets to download for Jeffrey Wooldridge’s econometrics textbook.

Tables and reports

estout: Making Regression Tables in Stata — Documentation for estout, a Stata package that turns estimation results into formatted regression tables.
dyndoc — Stata manual entry for the command that converts dynamic Markdown documents into HTML or Word files.
Reporting Reference Manual, Release 18 — Stata Bookstore page for the Stata 18 manual covering the software’s reporting tools.

Cheatsheets and reference

Stata Cheatsheets (PDF) — Stata’s cheat sheets in a single PDF, inspired by RStudio’s Cheatsheets.
Stata cheat sheets — Stata Bookstore page where the individual cheat sheets can be downloaded.
Stata 18 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Overview — Stata Corp’s overview of the windows and menus in the Stata 18 interface.
Install and Uninstall Programs from Boston College Statistical Software Components (SSC) — Stata’s instructions for adding and removing community-written packages from the SSC archive.