pandas.io.stata.StataReader.data¶
- StataReader.data(convert_dates=True, convert_categoricals=True, index=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
Returns : y : DataFrame instance