A Project Evaluation from the Eyes of a Graduate Fellow As a Graduate Fellow at Causal Design’s Cambodia Office, I was exposed to myriad of things related to the company’s activities. Here is a glimpse of my experience on a particular project evaluation in Phnom Penh office: What is the project we evaluated? The Microfranchised […]
“Access over Ownership – Considering Alternative Means for Improving Sanitation Outcomes” While browsing for WASH financial interventions in India the other day, I happened to stumble across Chen Guangzhe’s recent blog post on the benefits of constructing clean, well-maintained, shared toilets in communities with low levels of latrine ownership. This post struck a chord, […]
It looks like the folks over at CDG have been digging into the effectiveness of cell-phone based surveys in poor countries. We have used a couple of these platforms including the one used in their study (Voto). Bottom Line Up Front: It looks like this works better than most of us thought. Read their full […]
Many users of Stata looking to visualize statistics opt to output results into MS Excel via commands like -tabout-, -putexcel-, and -outreg-. While Excel offers an intuitive and comprehensive way to create summary tables, it lacks the professionalism of tables commonly found in published journal articles. These tables can be created using Latex, and fortunately, many Stata packages have Latex functionality. This article is a tutorial on how to use Stata’s -tabout- command to create publishable and client-ready tables in Latex. It assumes the reader has a good grasp of Stata and -tabout-, but no knowledge of Latex. The tutorial is not intended to teach general Latex, but only enough Latex to take advantage of Stata’s output commands.
