Maptile Geography: pt_mun, v.0.1

Mainland Portuguese municipalities for Stata's maptile package. Maptile, written by Michael Stepner, provides a simple method to map a variable in Stata.

How to install it?

First, if you haven't done it aleady, install maptile and spmap: ssc install maptile ssc intall spmap

For now, the only option to install this geography is manually. Unzip "geo_pt_mun.rar" and save it in PERSONAL/maptile_geographies, which is where maptile loads geographies automatically. Alternatively you can save it in any folder in your computer and pass it on to the , geofolder(folder_path) option in the maptile command.

Using the geography

1. Choose your dataset wisely. Make sure it has data by municipality level, identified by official 4-digit DICO municipality codes for mainland Portugal. (There is a toy dataset in the "geo_pt_mun_creation" folder.)

2. Choose the variable you want to map.

3. Run maptile and specify the geography name (pt_mun): maptile [varname], geo(pt_mun)

4. To see the geography's help file, use: maptile_geohelp pt_mun

Example

Here's how it looks! To create a pretty plot like this, you simply run maptile [varname], geo(pt_mun).

Further

I plan to roll out tiles for additional administrative boundaries (NUTSII, NUTSIII, districts, parishes), as time permits.

For the replication files

There are two ways to run the code that builds this maptile geo template:

1. Build using -project-

• Install the project command using ssc install project.
• Then run project, setup and choose the do-file that begins with "build_".
• Then run project build_<geoname>, build.

2. Build interactively

• Open the do-file that begins with "build_"
• Edit the line that reads global root "/Users/Gonçalo/Documents/GitHub/maptile_pt_mun/geo_pt_mun_creation". Replace the folder in that line with the folder on your computer that contains this do-file.
• Run this do-file.

All templates based on the amazing work of Michael Stepner, stepner@mit.edu.