Wrapping up

• Public replication package contains intelligible code, omits confidential details (but provides template code), has detailed data provenance statements

• Confidential replication package contains confidential code and possibly data, is archived in the RDC

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) (tutorial, example).

• 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!

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Now you wait for the replicators to show up!