Using examples from a German longitudinal study, this hands-on introduction leads you step by step through actual Stata sessions to answer practical questions commonly asked by social scientists. Updated to include changes to Stata over the past several years, this second edition describes the Graph Editor and time-of-day variables. The core of the book includes chapters on producing tables and graphs, performing linear regression, and using logistic regression. The authors also discuss reading text files, writing programs and ado-files, and using Internet resources, such as the search command and the SSC archive.