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    "Educational Attainment and Confidence Data Exploration\n",
    "\n",
    "By Aaron Zhao\n",
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    "Codes for downloading GSS Dataset"
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    "set maxvar 120000\n",
    "///This is probably not necessary: I tried to get the entire GSS data into Jupyter lab, which crashed it.\n",
    "/// I thought it was because the maxvar is too small by default so I enlarged it. It didn't help. "
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    "copy \"https://gss.norc.org/documents/stata/GSS_stata.zip\" ///\n",
    "  data/GSS_stata.zip, replace"
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    "copy \"https://gss.norc.org/Documents/stata/2018_stata.zip\" ///\n",
    "GSS2018.zip, replace\n",
    "///I am only using 2018 data because the entire data set is too large to include."
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      "    inflating: GSS2018.dta\n",
      "\n",
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    "use coneduc educ born using GSS2018.dta, clear"
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      "(file NewGSS.dta not found)\n",
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      "Variable      Storage   Display    Value\n",
      "    name         type    format    label      Variable label\n",
      "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n",
      "coneduc         byte    %29.0g     INSTCONF   confidence in education\n",
      "educ            byte    %29.0g     EDUC       highest year of school completed\n",
      "born            byte    %29.0g     YESNO      was r born in this country\n"
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    "describe coneduc educ born"
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