Wrapping up

Public replication package contains intelligible code, omits confidential details (but provides template code), has detailed data provenance statements. Confidential replication package contains all the same, plus the confidential code, is archived in the FSRDC.

Things to remember

• Use code to save figures and tables (estout, graph export, regsave).

• Create log files for each run (stata -b do file.do not fine-grained enough) (link)

• Run it all again, top to bottom!

• When doing a disclosure review request, remember to request the code.

• When outputting statistics, consider the disclosure rules - the less changes, the faster the output (in theory), but in particular fewer surprises.

• Do not think “nobody will ever read this code” - somebody is very likely to!