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The document is an econometrics assignment conducted by Getachew Meseret, involving data analysis using Stata software. It includes data importation from an Excel file, summary statistics of various variables, and a regression analysis on the number of children based on education, age, and age squared. The results indicate a negative relationship between education and the number of children, with a coefficient of -0.0905755.

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Econometrics Assignment Friday May 9 17:35:13 2025 Page 1

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1 . log using "C:\Users\lab\Documents\GETACHEW MESERET.smcl"

name: <unnamed>
log: C:\Users\lab\Documents\GETACHEW MESERET.smcl
log type: smcl
opened on: 9 May 2025, 17:28:23

2 . import excel "C:\Users\lab\Desktop\Fertility2 (2).xls", sheet("Sheet1") first


> row

3 . des

Contains data
obs: 4,361
vars: 27
size: 122,108

storage display value


variable name type format label variable label

mnthborn byte %10.0g mnthborn


yearborn byte %10.0g yearborn
age byte %10.0g age
electric byte %10.0g electric
radio byte %10.0g radio
tv byte %10.0g tv
bicycle byte %10.0g bicycle
educ byte %10.0g educ
ceb byte %10.0g ceb
agefbrth byte %10.0g agefbrth
children byte %10.0g children
knowmeth byte %10.0g knowmeth
usemeth byte %10.0g usemeth
monthfm byte %10.0g monthfm
yearfm byte %10.0g yearfm
agefm byte %10.0g agefm
idlnchld byte %10.0g idlnchld
heduc byte %10.0g heduc
agesq int %10.0g agesq
urban byte %10.0g urban
urb_educ byte %10.0g urb_educ
spirit byte %10.0g spirit
protest byte %10.0g protest
catholic byte %10.0g catholic
frsthalf byte %10.0g frsthalf
educ0 byte %10.0g educ0
evermarr byte %10.0g evermarr
Econometrics Assignment Friday May 9 17:35:13 2025 Page 2

Sorted by:
Note: Dataset has changed since last saved.

4 . sum

Variable Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max

mnthborn 4,361 6.331346 3.323333 1 12


yearborn 4,361 60.43362 8.682723 38 73
age 4,361 27.40518 8.685233 15 49
electric 4,358 .1402019 .3472363 0 1
radio 4,359 .7017665 .457535 0 1

tv 4,359 .0929112 .2903413 0 1


bicycle 4,358 .2758146 .4469751 0 1
educ 4,361 5.855996 3.927075 0 20
ceb 4,361 2.441642 2.406861 0 13
agefbrth 3,273 19.0113 3.092333 10 38

children 4,361 2.267828 2.222032 0 13


knowmeth 4,354 .9632522 .1881636 0 1
usemeth 4,290 .5776224 .4939956 0 1
monthfm 2,079 6.270322 3.619943 1 12
yearfm 2,079 76.91246 7.760183 50 88

agefm 2,079 20.68639 5.002383 10 46


idlnchld 4,241 4.615892 2.219303 0 20
heduc 1,956 5.144683 4.803028 0 20
agesq 4,361 826.46 526.9232 225 2401
urban 4,361 .5166246 .4997808 0 1

urb_educ 4,361 3.469158 4.294228 0 20


spirit 4,361 .4221509 .493959 0 1
protest 4,361 .2277001 .4193961 0 1
catholic 4,361 .1024994 .3033387 0 1
frsthalf 4,361 .5404724 .4984164 0 1

educ0 4,361 .2077505 .4057437 0 1


evermarr 4,361 .4767255 .4995153 0 1

5 . reg children educ age agesq

Source SS df MS Number of obs = 4,361


F(3, 4357) = 1915.20
Model 12243.0295 3 4081.00985 Prob > F = 0.0000
Residual 9284.14679 4,357 2.13085765 R-squared = 0.5687
Adj R-squared = 0.5684
Total 21527.1763 4,360 4.93742577 Root MSE = 1.4597

children Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]

educ -.0905755 .0059207 -15.30 0.000 -.102183 -.0789679


age .3324486 .0165495 20.09 0.000 .3000032 .364894
agesq -.0026308 .0002726 -9.65 0.000 -.0031652 -.0020964
_cons -4.138307 .2405942 -17.20 0.000 -4.609994 -3.66662

6 . **the cofficient of education is -0.0905755. this implies that

7 .

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