pandas.io.stata.StataReader.data

StataReader.data(convert_dates=True, convert_categoricals=True, index=None, convert_missing=False, preserve_dtypes=True, columns=None)

Reads observations from Stata file, converting them into a dataframe

Parameters :

convert_dates : boolean, defaults to True

Convert date variables to DataFrame time values

convert_categoricals : boolean, defaults to True

Read value labels and convert columns to Categorical/Factor variables

index : identifier of index column

identifier of column that should be used as index of the DataFrame

convert_missing : boolean, defaults to False

Flag indicating whether to convert missing values to their Stata representation. If False, missing values are replaced with nans. If True, columns containing missing values are returned with object data types and missing values are represented by StataMissingValue objects.

preserve_dtypes : boolean, defaults to True

Preserve Stata datatypes. If False, numeric data are upcast to pandas default types for foreign data (float64 or int64)

columns : list or None

Columns to retain. Columns will be returned in the given order. None returns all columns

Returns :

y : DataFrame instance