OpenSDP Human Capital Analysis (Stata)

This repository contains web guides, Stata data visualization code, and sample data to help education data analysts answer questions about patterns and trends in teacher recruitment and retention. The Human Capital Analysis materials can also be accessed on the OpenSDP website at opensdp.github.io/analysis.

The code in this repository is adapted from code from the parts A and E of the "Analyze" section of the Human Capital Edition of the Strategic Data Project Toolkit for Effective Data Use. It has been modified to work with a new synthetic data set.

Repository Organization

Files in this repository are organized into the following folders:

• data contains the synthesized student and teacher data used the Human Capital Analysis. See the included web guide for a description of the data files.
• docs contains the RMarkdown documentation source and the generated documentation output in html and markdown format. See "About the Documentation" below for how to use these files.
• logs contains the logs generated by the Stata code.
• programs contains the Stata programs for the analysis.
• tables_figures contains the figures generated by the analysis in Stata graph and EMF formats.

About the Documentation

The documentation is written in RMarkdown (.rmd) format, with R and Stata code embedded into a markdown document. Building the HTML documents from these files requires the following:

• An installation of Stata 14 or newer
• RStudio
• The Statamarkdown R library

Open the .rmd files in RStudio, edit the code to reflect the location of the repository on your computer, and then use the "Knit" button to build the HTML documents with knitr. Knitting the documents will also regenerate the Stata output in the tables_figures folder.

About OpenSDP

These materials were originally authored by the Strategic Data Project.

OpenSDP is an online, public repository of analytic code, tools, and training intended to foster collaboration among education analysts and researchers in order to accelerate the improvement of our school systems. The community is hosted by the Strategic Data Project, an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. We welcome contributions and feedback.