pandas.io.stata.read_stata¶
- pandas.io.stata.read_stata(filepath_or_buffer, convert_dates=True, convert_categoricals=True, encoding=None, index=None)¶
Read Stata file into DataFrame
Parameters : filepath_or_buffer : string or file-like object
Path to .dta file or object implementing a binary read() functions
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
encoding : string, None or encoding
Encoding used to parse the files. Note that Stata doesn’t support unicode. None defaults to cp1252.
index : identifier of index column
identifier of column that should be used as index of the DataFrame