Checklist: Data Cleaning

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Additional Resources

  • DIME Analytics’ guidelines on data cleaning 1 and 2
  • The Stata Cheat Sheets on Data processing and Data Transformation are helpful reminder of relevant Stata code.
  • The Quartz guide to bad data on Github has lots of helpful tips for dealing with the kind of data problems that often come up in real world settings.
  • See this data cleaning checklist to ensure that common cleaning actions have been completed. Note that this is not an exhaustive list. Such a list is impossible to create as the individual datasets and the analysis require different cleaning depending on context.