*! version 1.0.0 13mar2012
help bcuse

Title

bcuse -- Access BC Economics Stata datasets

Syntax

bcuse
filename | list
[
,
nodesc
clear
]

Description

bcuse provides easy access to a number of Stata-format datasets used
in BC Economics labs for Statistics (ECON1151) and Econometric Methods (ECON2228).
If you are told to use the crime1 dataset, give the command bcuse crime1.
If you receive an error message, check the web page listing
these datasets on the BC Economics web site,
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/wooldridge/datasets.list.html

If the filename is given as list, a list of all .dta files available on the
server is produced.

If a Stata data file has been saved in .zip format on the server (usually because
it is very large), you may give the filename, including .zip, and the zip file
will be copied to your working directory, unzipped, and read into Stata.

If the dataset is declared as a timeseries or panel, the tsset command will be
issued to display those characteristics.

Options

nodesc specifies that the dataset should not be described after loading.
By default, the describe command is automatically issued after the dataset is
loaded.

clear specifies that you want to clear Stata's memory before loading
the new dataset.

Examples

. bcuse crime1

. bcuse crime1, clear

. bcuse crime1, nodesc

. bcuse auto.zip, clear

Author

Christopher F Baum, Boston College

baum@bc.edu

Also see

On-line: help for use, sysuse, webuse