More compressed recoding of variables: inlist and inrange
The functions inlist and inrange can be used to set up compressed code expressions for coding variables, so that scripts are more clear and less resource-demanding to run.
Author: Trond Pedersen
Greater flexibility when exporting graphs
Microdata.no now makes it possible to export graphs in several formats, as well as edit them in the editing tool Vega.
Improved search functionality
The variable overview of microdata.no has now been greatly improved in that it is possible to filter by subject area or other characteristics of the data, while at the same time you can freely choose how the variable list should be sorted.
New revision of the User Guide is now published
The user manual for microdata.no has now been updated and describes all new functionality that has been implemented since April 2022.
Now you can also restructure datasets from long to wide format
In addition to the command reshape-to-panel, we now introduce reshape-from-panel which makes it possible to go the opposite way, namely to restructure datasets from long- to wide-format. This provides significantly greater flexibility when adapting datasets for analyses.
Now you can restructure datasets from wide to long format
The new command reshape-to-panel gives you the freedom to restructure your data to long-format, i.e. data where the information is organized downwards as observations / records.
New regression functionality: Oaxaca
The analysis directory in microdata.no has been expanded with the new command oaxaca. This is a tool to measure whether there are systematic differences between two groups, e.g. men and women, and the differences are further decomposed into an explained and an unexplained component.
New variants of marginal effects available for logistical regressions
It is now possible to calculate marginal effects for logistic regression analyzes in other ways than the default value “overall”, using the new option “mfx_at ()”.
New functionality: Outer join
For variable import in microdata.no, the standard solution is “left join”, where the first variable that is imported into a dataset determines the population. But now we introduce the possibility to import data using “outer join” so that also new individuals / units that don’t exist in your original population will be added to your…
User Guide for microdata.no revised per januar 2022
The user manual has been updated and describes the latest commands and functionalities that have been implemented from September 2020 until January 2022.
