Identifier variables are prominent in most data files and, more often than not, are essential to fully use the information in a Stata dataset. However, rendering them in the proper format and relevant number of digits appropriate for data management and statistical analysis might pose unnerving...

This article introduces a new Stata command, labcenswdi, to automatically manage databases that provide variable descriptions on the second row in a dataset. While renaming all variables and converting them from string to numeric, labcenswdi automatically manages the variable descriptions...

The World Bank’s world development indicators (WDI) compilation is a rich and widely used database about the development of most economies in the world. However, after insheeting a WDI dataset, some data management is required prior to performing statistical analysis. In this article, I...