help bcuse
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Title
    bcuse -- Access BC Economics Stata datasets

Syntax
        bcuse filename [ , nodesc clear ]

Description

    bcuse provides easy access to a number of Stata-format datasets used in
    BC Economics labs for Statistics (EC151) and Econometric Methods (EC228).
    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 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.

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

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