Your field of research
Used by hundreds of thousands of researchers for more than 30 years, Stata provides everything you need for statistics, graphics, data management and reproducible reporting.
From accountants to zoologists and lawyers to meteorologists, there are many fields of research using Stata. See below for a selection of leading users of Stata.
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Behavioural sciences
Quantitative behavioral scientists rely on Stata for its accuracy, extensibility, reproducibility, and ease of use. Whether you are researching cognitive development, studying personality traits, or developing measurement instruments, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools needed to pursue a broad range of behavioral science questions.
Biostatistics
Biostatisticians rely on Stata because of its breadth, accuracy, extensibility, and reproducibility. Regardless of your focus area—public health, cancer, HIV, clinical observational studies, clinical trials—or your statistical approach, whether cross-sectional, longitudinal, or time-to-event, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools needed to implement and study a wide range of biostatistical methods.
Data science
Data scientists rely on Stata because of its strong programming capabilities, reproducibility, extensibility, and interoperability. From data wrangling to reporting, Stata provides the tools you need to accomplish your analyses. Permissive licensing allows you to easily integrate it into your proprietary workflow.
Economics
Economists have relied on Stata for over 30 years because of its breadth, accuracy, extensibility, and reproducibility. Whether you are researching school selection, minimum wage, GDP, or stock trends, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools needed to pursue a broad range of economic questions.
Education
Quantitative researchers in education rely on Stata because of its breadth, accuracy, and ease of use. Whether you are developing new tests or researching topics as diverse as learning / development, teacher effectiveness, or school finance, Stata puts the best statistical methods at your fingertips. All analysis is seamlessly integrated with graphics and data management into one package that lets you pursue a broad range of education questions.
Epidemiology
Epidemiologists have relied on Stata for over 30 years because of its specialised epidemiologic commands, accuracy, and ease of use. Whether you are researching infectious diseases, investigating exposure to pathogens, or studying chronic diseases, Stata provides the data management and statistical tools to support your research. It also gives you the ability to make publication-quality graphics so you can clearly display your findings.
Finance, business, marketing
Data-driven researchers in finance, marketing, and business rely on Stata because of its breadth, accuracy, extensibility, and reproducibility. Whether you are researching asset pricing, capital market dynamics, customer-value management, consumer and firm behavior, or branding, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools to pursue a broad range of finance, marketing, and business questions.
Medical research
Medical researchers rely on Stata for its range of biostatistical methods, reproducibility, and ease of use. Whether you are conducting basic medical research or carrying out a clinical trial, Stata provides the tools you need to conduct your study from power and sample-size calculations to data management to analysis.
Public health
Researchers in public health and health services research rely on Stata because of its breadth, reproducibility, and ease of use. Whether you study interventions to address obesity, investigate small-area variations in care, or conduct program evaluation, Stata provides support for a wide variety of study designs. It also gives you data management tools specifically designed for health research and the ability to make publication-quality graphics for presentations.
Institutional research
Institutional researchers rely on Stata for its breadth, accuracy, reproducibility, and ease of use. Whether you are evaluating predictors of student retention, analyzing faculty turnover rates, or studying the effects of tuition policies, Stata provides all the data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and reporting tools you need to complete your analyses.
Political science
Quantitative political scientists rely on Stata because of its breadth, accuracy, and reproducibility. Whether you are researching decentralisation and federalism, voting behaviour, legislative redistricting, or internal conflict, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools needed to pursue a broad range of political science questions.
Public policy
Public policy researchers have relied on Stata for over 30 years because of its breadth, accuracy, extensibility, and reproducibility. Whether you are researching trade, international development, defence, health, energy and environment, education, law, or urban planning, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools for you.
Sociology
Quantitative sociologists rely on Stata because of its breadth, reproducibility, and ease of use. Whether you are researching health, race and ethnicity, family, gender, inequality, or demography, Stata provides all the statistics, graphics, and data management tools needed to address a broad range of sociological questions.