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# 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

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