The first Mexican meeting will be held in Mexico City. The meeting is open to all interested. StataCorp will be represented.
FOR ALL THE ATTENDEES AT THE EVENT THERE WILL BE FREE TRIALS OF Stata

	Language:		The meeting will be bilingual with no translations of any kind. Presentations may be delivered in either English or Spanish according to the preference of the presenter.

			Schedule
		Time	Activity ( * to view the complete information of each activity just click on the title)
		8:00 AM - 8:55 AM	Registration
		8:55 AM - 9:00 AM	Welcome
		9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	* Decomposition of the Gini coefficient using Stata Alejandro López Feldman Economics Department, Universidad de Guanajuato
		9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	* Stata in the measurement and analysis of poverty in Mexico Hector H. Sandoval, Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar and Martín Lima Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Politica de Desarrollo Social (CONEVAL)
		10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	* A review of Stata SVAR modelling capabilities Armando Sánchez Vargas Institute for Economic Research, UNAM
		10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Coffee break
		11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	* Multilevel modeling of ordinal responses Sophia Rabe-Hesketh University of California-Berkeley
		12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	* Dealing with the cryptic survey: processin labels and value labels with Mata Alfonso Miranda Instituto de Educación, University of London
		1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch
		2:00 PM - 2:30 PM	* Some improved Stata ado-files for nonparametric smoothing procedures Isaías H. Salgado Ugarte FES Zaragoza, UNAM
		2:30 PM - 3:00 PM	* Cointegrating VAR models and probability forecasting in Stata Gustavo Sánchez Bizot Senior Statistician, StataCorp
		3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	* Determinants and consequences of property tax collection in Mexico Daniel Broid Secreataria de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP)
		3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Coffee break
		4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	* Predicting counterfactual densities with the DFL Ado—file: A pertinent constructive critique Luis Huesca Economics Department, CIAD
		4:30 PM - 5:00 PM	* Analysis of micro data from ENIGH using Stata Juan Francisco Islas Aguirre Economics Division, CIDE
		5:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Coffee break
		5:30 PM - 6:00 PM	* Reproducible research: Weaving with Stata and StatWeave Bill Rising Director of Educational Services, StataCorp
		6:00 PM - end of day	* Report to users and “wishes and grumbles” Bill Rising Director of Educational Services, StataCorp
			The schedule listed here could be changed and willultimately be defined in coming days.