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Godwin
Verified reviewer
Banking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2023
A Reliable and Effective Statistical Data Analysis and Processing Tool.
With the current grobal trends, we can say that data is the new gold as far as business is concerned. With the tool we are able to manipulate any data to get the desired results. There is no statistical challenge that we are unable to sort with the tool.
PROSWhats best with the tool is that its loaded with a breath of features. The features helps us in handling any statistical analysis and data visualization. Its a stand alone when its data processing. You are able to clean the data and process it without the need of a third party application.
CONSFor you to work with the tool, you will need a training on statistics and data handling. Other than that the tool is reliable and efficient.
Tigran
Verified reviewer
Banking, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Review for Stata
Stata is a very good statistical software for people who are not familiar with coding, but are required to work with financial time series. It has all types of regressions is very comfortable to use. Also the last Stata update (Stata 16) supports Python, so you can write a Python code in Stata. This is a very comfortable for me as i am using both scrapping and financial time series analysis
PROSFirst, Stata is super easy to use. (If you are not a programmer and coding is not your strongest skill, then Stata is a perfect match for you. You do not need to write a code in Stata in order to get the results. You can just use your mouse, find the right buttons, click them and get the results. Second, you can run basically all types of regressions in Stata. Third Stata is user friendly. It took you a while to get comfortable with it, but after 1-2 weeks of usage, you really start to love this statistical software
CONSFirst of all it is price. Stata is very expensive and there are some softwares that let you to do almost the same things with the lower price or even free. Furthermore the graphics of Stata are not very beautiful, so I would never recommend you to use that graphs for your presentation
Randall
Utilities, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed July 2023
Unintuitive, clunky with subpar error trouble shooting features
Disappointing, hard to build inertia on a project when troubleshooting errors is a tedious process. I've switched over, Stata is not competitive for business use.
PROSNothing really, Python and R are just light-years ahead. There is no real reason for me to use it anymore.
CONSImprove error troubleshooting, python points you to where the problem lies, Stata makes you search blindly for answers (e.g. Missing values in b and/or V; check your specification (perfect colinearity)) Ok check where?
Agni
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2018
Stata for learning Econometrics
I would say that having worked with stata using different datasets have improved my econometrics understanding. It is a great choice for research.
PROSStata is a statistical analysis software which is fairly easy to use. I believe It is the 2nd best software (after R) for learning econometrics. It has both coding and drop down interfaces. Easy to learn and there are ample of notes on internet which can be used in the learning process. Fast and powerful enough to run econometric models (even runs tobit model, which R can not do. R returns infinite SE many times). Since it is a paid software, the results it provides are reliable and that is why it is widely used by econometricians for their research. Since most of the economists use stata, it has a network externality, i.e. people can understand the research methodology by going over stata codes.
CONSThe reason I think it is the 2nd best is that it is not cheap. Also, it offers different licenses. The basic license costs 200 usd (approx). But it can work with only 2048 variables. For mor variables, you have to buy stata SE, which can work with 32,767 variables. Since most of the advanced public datasets has more than 2048 variables, it is difficult to manage with IC. So, they basically force you to buy SE. They should increase the number of variables to at least 10000 for the IC version.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your comments.
Replied September 2018
Benjamin
Verified reviewer
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2017
Stata is a very strong analytical tool. I keep learning about it each time I use it!
Excellent software which makes analysis easy to conduct, and easy to replicate. A bit expensive so non-experienced analysts may prefer other free or less expensive tools. I really enjoy learning everyday about new Stata functions and tools and I am actually thinking in starting online Stata Corp courses to get a proper and well-structured training.
PROS- Easy to share do-files. - Keep learning each time I use it. - Professional and well recognized in the research community. - Regular updates, add-ons and new versions released with features for always more convenient use. - Rigorous statistical/analytical tools, also very adjustable to one's needs. - Help section is very helpful.
CONS- Lack of free online courses available to improve even faster. - Cumbersome tabulations export from Stata to MS Excel for example. - Still expensive, but indeed worth the money.
Vendor Response
Thank you! We appreciate your feedback!
Replied November 2017
Thomas
Verified reviewer
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2018
STATA is the most user-friendly stats software on the market
The software is the best statistics software on the market. Easy to use and learn.
PROSI use lots of different statistics and data visualization packages, and my go to software for advanced analytics is STATA. The software offers most any statistical procedure available, and when a procedure is unavailable, there is usually a user-written program to accomplish what I need to accomplish.
CONSThe biggest weakness of STATA is it's visualization capabilities and it's clunky output format. It takes some effort to make STATA graphs and regression output tables publication quality.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied February 2018
Kenton
Verified reviewer
Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2021
Stata is very good - but not the best
Stata is excellent for analyzing data and preparing for publication.
PROSStata is an excellent statistics software for analyzing a multitude of types of data. Allows for a variety of analyses.
CONSWhile Stata does do a good job of being accessible at times, it is not the best statistics software available right now. There are others that are more intuitive and deep.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review!
Replied June 2021
Talha
Verified reviewer
Textiles, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
Economatrix tools for data analysis.
its good for intermediate level analysis but advance analysis required a lot of advance tool to be established in stata.
PROSStata is good for regression and correlation analysis. We can analysis by and multi variable with random and fixed effect method.can detuct homoscedasticity and hetroscedasticity easily for deeply analysis.
CONSIts complicated due to command process. a minor typing error may leads towards biased result. secondly its multicollionearity not deduct auto.
Reasons for switching to Stata
advance analysis
Russell
Verified reviewer
Government Administration, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2019
Statistically Speaking STATA is a Great Piece of Software!
STATA was a great program to use in my Political Science classes. We learned the program in a class and it was a huge help for the remainder of my time at University. STATA was great for plotting out demographics and helping to build a hypothesis for many research assignments done in my years at the University I attended. Some of the things that we learned to do with STATA was finding the 95% confidence interval and the r-value.
CONSSTATA wasn't the easiest software to pick up quickly, but it is possible. I think that the UI for STATA could be improved on. I found it difficult to convert and import certain files into data files into STATA. There were many times where you had to change some of the data formatting and then import it into STATA for it to work properly.
Adriel
Verified reviewer
Research, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Convenience and Computation - at a price
Stata gives much convenience to Econometrics and Statistical Analysis. The command syntax is easy to learn, the Stata manuals give much info on both theory and application, and the software gives so many offerings with respect to statistical methods.
CONSStata is pricey, and its features can be replicated in other software like Python or R. However, it stands that Stata has features not available anywhere else - GSEM modeling and even simple multinomial choice modeling are unavailable in other software without complications. Stata's convenience is worth the price if businesses are up to it.
Christopher
Education Management, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2021
A great software for a great analyst.
It is an important tool for a data analyst like me, it is simply spectacular the tools that all the software has to work with, from a regression analysis to a time series, it is simply graphics that I and the people I work with really appreciate because most of the reports look good when we use this software.
CONSThe big problem I would see is the technical support, most of the answers to the problems are computer generated and most of the doubts are not solved, it is frustrating the fact that your problems have no solution and you have to go elsewhere to try to solve them. The other problem is that it is a tool for which you have to pay an annual or monthly subscription if you want to use it, it is not that it restricts some tools or not, it just does not let you use any of the tools that this software has.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
Stata for Social Research and Beginners
Stata is an excellent program for new sociologists to study data analysis and is used in many universities; thus, I find it to be easy software for statistical beginners. The ease of use, variables, uploading, and extracting data is straightforward and more comprehensible than a few other statistical software. In addition, no matter which computer one has, stata will most likely still be compatible (works with a MacBook).
CONSThis software is costly, that is, if you are not given access by a university or research company, which provides difficulty in accessibility. In addition, stata does not allow you to put your data into blocks with their titles [such as in R], and if you run your data and there is a mistake, it's challenging to figure out and correct where your issue lies.
Reasons for switching to Stata
Even though R is free, it did not work with my specific computer, and I found the uploading and coding process to be much more difficult. R did not include variable names, only the numbered codes.
Swaty
Education Management, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2021
Easy statistical analysis
Excellent product! I like the help feature as well. Everything is explained in the documents provided in help tool
PROSI like overall every feature of this software. It has made my work easier, especially regression analysis.
CONSUpdate is installed easily but sometime it take long time to update and create error in analyses. Else I like it!
Reasons for switching to Stata
Ease of use
Steve
Research, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2017
Delighted
I use it almost every day to study many things. As a researcher in economy, it is my duty to try to find correlations between two variables to see if there is some kind of relation than can explain the behavior of the people in an economic context or the evolution of the economy, etc. This tool is fundamental in my PhD. Also, as a assistant professor of econometrics, I teach the students how to use this program, and I must say that some of them find it a little bit difficult to use. But through practise, the majority of them finally learn to use it properly.
PROSAlmost everything. Although it has minor bugs, the amount of things that this program allows you to do is so extensive that you can quickly forget the mistakes. From simple mathematic operations to big calculations of multiple variables and different types of graphs. Besides, it allows you to save the structure of your work so the next time you have to do the same or similar you don't need to start from scratch.
CONSSince it is a program that works using commands that you write on the sheet, you need to take your time to remember all of them. It's not a very big trouble, but still, some people that may not have a very good memory can find this a problem.
Vendor Response
Your feedback is always appreciated!
Replied November 2017
Alphonce
Research, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2021
Stata Review
I have been using stata for data management and data analysis for more than three years. I get all the information I need from raw data through the use of stata. Stata has made me serve the company's client with alot of ease and all the results have been appreciated by the company's clients.
PROSI did not understand why my boss insisted on the use of Stata in his company until I started using it myself. Stata has been my best software for data management and analysis. Doing my work on do-file make it very easy to save my codes for future reference and use. Stata codes are short and easy to remember making my work easy.
CONSOne thing I dislike about stata is the way it outputs graphs and charts. Most of the graphs are not appealing to the eye.
Reasons for switching to Stata
SPSS is equally a good software for data management and analysis but stata has features that make it very easy to use which makes it user friendly. It is very easy to code in stata and the do-file makes it very easy to keep saving your work.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
The best and easiest statistical analysis package
STATA gives you simple and accurate analytics of the impored data set, UI is similiar to SPSS a well known platform for all other analytic works
PROSSimple yet strong to handle big data set, data mining and data manipulation, data analytics, and graphical representation. Simple UI, faster language and simplest data importing features make them standalone from other platforms.
CONSLanguage is bit different than others, so switching from others is a difficult task for users.
Reasons for switching to Stata
STATA i more suitable for big data set handling and representing a good miner
Roshan
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
A feature rich software for a reasonable cost
I find it very useful and I have a positive overall experience. The do file feature where I could easily write and store my commands save me a loads of time.
PROSThe very high number of features Easy to write and store commands in do file Portability and the hard disk footprint is lowQuite reasonable price Very reliable ane stable software Updates come regularly
CONSThe output and reporting features could improve.The SEM module could greatly improve, which is a must in structural equation modellingA limited educational version for free would be nice as in the case of other competitive software.
Reason for choosing Stata
I'm a professor and use these to teach these software.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2019
Powerful data management and analysis software
Stata has been a crucial part of any piece of econometric research or data visualization conducted. High quality and accepted for peer review. Generally helpful online fora. Worth it if you can afford it.
PROSPowerful data management and statistical analysis tool. Great graphic generator. Good integration with other software.
CONSHigh degree of difficulty in getting started. Course is recommended. Often unintuitive menu system and layout.
kenaw
Higher Education, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
University lecturer
I am using this software for along years.
PROSSince I am a researcher I used this software daily. Stata is menu-based software. so, it is easy to use.
CONSStata software is full of packages. It is used to analyze large business data and health-related datasets. There is no difficulty to use stata.
Benjamin
Verified reviewer
Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2019
Syntax easy to learn
Overall, Stata has been a fantastic program that I have incorporated into my workflow to conduct statistical analysis. I have used it for many University projects as well as in the professional world, and it is my reliable source for automated statistical analysis as I use it often for OLS regression. It's interface and programming language are incredibly easy to learn and use, and it consistently delivers exactly what I need regardless of the project. I would highly recommend using this software if you're a newbie to statistical programming and need a cheap, yet powerful tool to provide your company with analysis for decision-making.
PROSMy favorite part is definitely Stata's ease of use. Stata is by far the most intuitive program for statistical analysis, as the syntax for commands is purely logical and easy to pick up.
CONSI've run into no significant problems with Stata throughout almost 2 years of use.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied April 2019
Rutcher
Education Management, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2019
Stata: Your enabling statistical software
With Stata, my team and I can easily examine data patterns. Stata is able to do more complex statistical processes as compared to basic statistical softwares I have came across as an economics professor. I love Stata!
PROSAs a data analyst and statistician, Stata became my best friend. It's literally what I have for breakfast, lunch and dinner when I am at work. Stata enables me to run data and make an analysis. It also allows me to come up with graphic visualizations I could use for reports and presentation.
CONSI like everything about it! It does everything I need for efficient data analyst.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your comments!
Replied November 2019
Jonathan
Research, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2016
Fantastic Statistical Package
Stata is somehow more known among economists than among statisticians but I really don't see why it is - and why it should remain that way. Stata is comparable to SAS is many ways. It works in terms of commands as opposed to a 'real' programming/coding language. I have found Stata to be incredibly useful in terms of running regressions. If you are someone who likes to use multiple softwares (which I do, because each has their own strengths and can improve your workflow) - I like to view and try to understand my data on Excel since it's most visual, then clean it up, merge tables, etc in SAS, and finally run more sophisticated analysis on Stata
PROSGreat for statistical analysis, easy to use and learn commands
CONSI wish they are more 'visual' about data presentations. For example, trying to read and clean up data can be rather annoying because interface for visual presentation is not so intuitive.
Thien
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2022
Good software for data analysis with great community support
In my field, Stata is like the common language so it's pretty much a fixed choice. The best thing about Stata is its user communities: I was almost always able to find answers to all of my econometrics questions on Statalist.
CONSStata is not the best for data preparation and data cleaning. I have a multi-core version and yet sometimes it still struggles with large datasets. It might just be my personal preferences, but I also don't use Stata that much for data visualization, for which I think there are better tools.
hilary
Banking, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2019
For accurate results
Stata is overally the best tool for economists and researchers to modulate data so that it makes sense to become usable for reports and documents. However its not east to use, you have to be accurate in entering your data so that it makes sense.
PROSits accurate and precise as well as reliable it generally runs on any windows machine it gives quality graphs that have a professional finish its the most recommended by professors or in the economics environment, use stata and you wont have to do your work twice. you do not need internet to use the software, once you install it successfully you are good to go. it is compatible with writing softwares like word and excel.
CONSfor me the software is absolutely not an easy one one has to get coaching to know how to use it. it does not cover all variables, you have to go to pro if you need those
Reason for choosing Stata
this was the most suitable for econometrics and research purpose
Florencia
Higher Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2019
Good statistical software
I work with Stata. It's a very useful statistical software. But it is necessary to have a strong base.
PROSIt's not a simple software. People need to have a large statistical base and knowledge of the commands. But when u have both, it's very useful for work and study. It has a section where you can check the commands and what they are used for.
CONSYou never finish knowing all the commands and terms and always have to write them perfectly. Another thing is that if u use it very often, it's better to have the recent edition. The previous ones may have errors.