Useful Commands in Stata

kountry: Command for getting country names and codes in different formats (ssc install kountry).

wbopendata: Download data from World Bank directly from STATA (ssc install wbopendata).

reghdfe: Generalization of areg for multiple level of fixed effects and multi-way clustering (ssc install reghdfe).

gtools: Faster Stata for big data. Includes faster equivalents to collapse, reshape, egen and many more. Just need to add g to the command (e.g. gcollapse). To install all just type ssc install gtools.

sumup: Summarize data by groups

texdoc: Latex tables directly on STATA. Longer (but worth it) way to get results into latex tables directly from STATA (ssc install texdoc)

binscatter2 Faster binned scatterplots. It allows for multi-way fixed effects, unlike binscatter (ssc install binscatter2).

mdesc: STATA module to tabulate missing values (ssc install mdesc).

winsor2 New version of command winsor. Useful when you need to winsorize or trim outliers. Additional features include the possibility to winsorize on different levels at both ends of the distribituion. (ssc install winsor2).

compress: Attempts to reduce the amount of memory used for the data. Important when working with large datasets. For an efficient way of generating new variables use gen [data type] varlist = exp, for example gen int N_obs = _n

levelsof: transforms values of a string into local macros.

tokenize: Divide strings into tokens

grc1leg2: Add a common legend to combined graphs (findit grc1leg2).

sendtoslack: Send message to inform the code finished. Very helpful when working with large administrative data.

codebook: Command to describe data.