README

Updated on Sept 10, 2025

Data

Test case

Data is public-use, but requires login at ICPSR. Adding stuff here.

Data can be downloaded from https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR13568.v1 Data should extracted from zip file and placed into folder "data". Note that the files structure of the downloaded data is maintained but only subfolder DS0002 (Alaska) is used.

Requirements

Runtime: approximatly 1.6s on Windows 64-bit, PC (64-bit x86-64) with Processors: 8.

Stata Packages: latab available in SSC.

Code

There are 5 Stata program files:

• master.do : will run all programs in the right sequence
• 00_setup_stata.do: will set up directory structure, and install any required packages
• 01_dataclean.do: reads in downloaded data, saves person and household files, and creates a clean merged dataset, for Alaska only
• 02_table1.do: Creates Table 1
• config.do: sets up the environment. Called by master.do. If running programs individually, must be called before running each program within the same Stata session.

Running code

Run the master.do. Suggested batch command:

stata -b do master.do

A log file will be created.

Tables

All table output is in folder tables:

Table	Programs
Table 1	02_table1.do