Data quality analysis pipeline and training exercise by krojas01 · Pull Request #29 · PovertyAction/ipa-stata-template

krojas01 · 2026-01-15T01:50:05Z

Major additions:

Modular impact and reliability analysis pipeline (scripts/do/advanced_analysis/)
- 00_setup_config.do - Centralized project configuration
- 00_run_all.do - Master script with control switches
- 01_load_explore.do - Data loading and exploration
- 02_merge_datasets.do - Dataset merging with type checking
- 03_impact_analysis.do - Baseline vs endline impact analysis
- 04_reliability_analysis.do - Endline vs backcheck reliability
- 05_enumerator_effects.do - Enumerator effect detection
- 06_participant_tracking.do - Multi-level tracking validation
- README.md - Complete implementation guide
Training exercise materials
- EXERCISE_README.md - Comprehensive training guide
- EXERCISE_SUMMARY.md - Quick start guide
- VARIABLE_GUIDE.md - Variable tracking reference
- scripts/python/generate_fake_data.py - Synthetic data generator
- data/raw/sample_data.csv - Generated training dataset (1,000 obs)
Enhanced existing dofiles
- scripts/do/01_data_cleaning.do - Added educ_years variable creation
- scripts/do/07_advanced_programming.do - Fixed variable naming consistency

Features:

Complete impact evaluation pipeline following IPA best practices
Paired t-tests with Cohen d effect sizes
Bland-Altman reliability analysis with ICC
Enumerator effect regression analysis
Hierarchical probabilistic record linkage (6-level matching)
GPS distance validation using Haversine formula
Comprehensive logging and error handling
Multiple export formats (Excel, CSV, Stata)
Production-ready with extensive documentation
Synthetic dataset with realistic correlations for training
All scripts are modular, reusable, and easy to customize

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Major additions: - Modular impact and reliability analysis pipeline (scripts/do/advanced_analysis/) * 00_setup_config.do - Centralized project configuration * 00_run_all.do - Master script with control switches * 01_load_explore.do - Data loading and exploration * 02_merge_datasets.do - Dataset merging with type checking * 03_impact_analysis.do - Baseline vs endline impact analysis * 04_reliability_analysis.do - Endline vs backcheck reliability * 05_enumerator_effects.do - Enumerator effect detection * 06_participant_tracking.do - Multi-level tracking validation * README.md - Complete implementation guide - Training exercise materials * EXERCISE_README.md - Comprehensive training guide * EXERCISE_SUMMARY.md - Quick start guide * VARIABLE_GUIDE.md - Variable tracking reference * scripts/python/generate_fake_data.py - Synthetic data generator * data/raw/sample_data.csv - Generated training dataset (1,000 obs) - Enhanced existing dofiles * scripts/do/01_data_cleaning.do - Added educ_years variable creation * scripts/do/07_advanced_programming.do - Fixed variable naming consistency Features: - Complete impact evaluation pipeline following IPA best practices - Paired t-tests with Cohen d effect sizes - Bland-Altman reliability analysis with ICC - Enumerator effect regression analysis - Hierarchical probabilistic record linkage (6-level matching) - GPS distance validation using Haversine formula - Comprehensive logging and error handling - Multiple export formats (Excel, CSV, Stata) - Production-ready with extensive documentation - Synthetic dataset with realistic correlations for training - All scripts are modular, reusable, and easy to customize

NKeleher

🎉 Great to see that you're working with this repository! A couple of items to attend to (and we can go over them in person on Monday if it's easiest) before a full review:

please remove the /archive and Quarto artifact /README_files/, README.html files. We want to keep this template clean of any unnecessary files.
the version of the repo that you edited diverges from the main branch. I moved Stata do files to a do_files/ folder rather than scripts/do. I'm open to either approach, but the do_file structure was set up to better match the folder structure that @dcarrillo99 and Sid are working with on a project
there are a lot of hardcoded paths that we should avoid. Please clean those so that the scripts are more generalizable.
Could you use the Pull Request Template structure to explain the purpose of this PR. I'm especially interested to hear your motivation for an advanced_analysis folder rather than just modifying and adding to the existing do files.

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:14:28Z

data/archive/Proposals 2014-2025 cleaned.csv

@krojas01 - could you please delete the data/archive/ files? If they are necessary could you explain?

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:15:29Z

data/raw/archive/sample_data.csv

No need to save files in an archive folder.

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:17:44Z

data/raw/sample_data.csv

I like this improvement. Seems like you're adding more realistic ID values and more variance in the Income

⭐ ⭐ I'm not clear why the Education values should have decimal points. Maybe store as an integer to convey fully completed years of education?

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:18:36Z

README_files/libs/bootstrap/bootstrap-9e3ffae467580fdb927a41352e75a2e0.min.css

Please remove all of the README_files/. Seems like this slipped in from a Quarto render we don't want to commit those files to GitHub.

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:23:29Z

scripts/do/advanced_analysis/00_run_all.do

+
+// Temporarily change to project directory to create log
+// (Will be set properly in config script)
+capture cd "C:\Users\IPACOLPC105\scratch\ipa-stata-template"


⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Let's avoid hardcoding paths. Please check the latest version of the main branch where I've set up to use setroot:

ipa-stata-template/do_files/00_run.do

Line 62 in 26ff7d9

// Uses setroot to find .here or .git marker from any directory

https://github.com/PovertyAction/ipa-stata-template/blob/main/setup.do#L32

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:26:13Z

scripts/do/impact_and_reliability_analysis.do

+*%%
+clear all
+set more off
+version 16


❓ Most of the other code uses version 17. Should we be consistent with version 17 or 16?

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:26:31Z

scripts/do/impact_and_reliability_analysis.do

+
+// Define file paths
+*idela file
+global baseline "D:\Review\EC5\01_baseline\02_outputs\LMEE_Baseline_EC5_ChildSurvey_pii_idela.dta"


Avoid hard coded paths. Lots of them here.

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:28:18Z

scripts/setup/run_install.bat

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+@echo off
+"C:\Program Files\Stata18\StataSE-64.exe" /e do "C:\Users\IPACOLPC105\scratch\ipa-stata-template\scripts\setup\install_zanthro.do"


❓ what's the goal of this file? (also avoid hardcoded paths.)

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:30:57Z

_environment

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 QUARTO_PYTHON=.venv/Scripts/python.exe
+STATA_CMD=C:/Program Files/Stata18/StataMP-64.exe


Is this necessary? or is is the .env-example sufficient? (the .env-example should be copied and saved as .env and modified to match the user's environment. https://github.com/PovertyAction/ipa-stata-template/blob/main/.env-example#L3

Let me know if the instructions should be clearer. https://github.com/PovertyAction/ipa-stata-template?tab=readme-ov-file#steps

NKeleher · 2026-01-15T13:31:39Z

README.html

Please remove this file

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Update stata do files to use new analysis data and allow for do files to run in isolation from Stata #41

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		@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
		@echo off
		"C:\Program Files\Stata18\StataSE-64.exe" /e do "C:\Users\IPACOLPC105\scratch\ipa-stata-template\scripts\setup\install_zanthro.do"

		@@ -1 +1,2 @@
		QUARTO_PYTHON=.venv/Scripts/python.exe
		STATA_CMD=C:/Program Files/Stata18/StataMP-64.exe No newline at end of file

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