Data management: Tips, tricks, and advanced topics

Data management: Tips, tricks, and advanced topics#

Learning Objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • Explain at which point in the data processing pipeline you want to select the sample for analysis (e.g., imposing restrictions on observations being used)

  • Use metadata programmatically to avoid repetitive code when cleaning many similar variables

  • Combine variables from different data sources into a single variable

  • Apply strategies for handling variables that change their coding over time in a panel dataset

Materials#

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Quiz#