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pandas can not load Stata 16 data

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Code Sample

df = pd.read_stata('xx.dta')

Problem description

I was trying to use the above command to load Stata 16 data, but got an error saying

Version of given Stata file is not 104, 105, 108, 111 (Stata 7SE), 113 (Stata 8/9), 114 (Stata 10/11), 115 (Stata 12), 117 (Stata 13), or 118 (Stata 14)

I updated pandas to version 0.25.1, the issue persists. How could I load Stata 16 data without degrading the dataset? Thanks.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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shuai-zhoucommented, Jan 7, 2020

@shuai-zhou : Can you share the file that you’re trying to load?

cc @bashtage

@gfyoung I would like to, but the .dta is a large file (~500M) with 38548 variables (columns), and I figured out that I was wrong. I extracted a subset from the file and loaded it to pandas dataframe successfully. I guess the numbers of columns are an issue, not the Stata version.

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bashtagecommented, Jan 8, 2020

@shuai-zhou I was wrong – 119 are supported. So if you cannot import your file, we should try to figure out why.

Could you make a very small version to share – perhaps with a few observations?