This practical book helps you learn the capabilities of Stata’s sem command in the context of confirmatory factor analysis, path analysis, structural equation modeling, longitudinal models, and multiple-group analysis. It describes each model along with the necessary Stata code. Downloadable data sets enable you to run the programs and learn in a hands-on way. A particularly exciting feature is the SEM Builder, which allows you to draw publication-quality path diagrams and fit the models without writing any programming code.