DTA
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www.stata-press.com/data/r18/d.html | www.stata-press.com/data/r18/d.html | ||
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| + | stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/examples/chp/regression-analysis-by-example-third-editionby-chatterjee-hadi-pricedata-files/ | ||
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Revision as of 23:28, 11 October 2026
DTA file format is the file format for storing data by the statistical software from Stata.
Format
An implementation to read DTA files can be found in the pandas python package.
github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/pandas/io/stata.py
Identification
Modern DTA files are some kind of binary XML files and start with the <stata_dta> tag.
Sample files
New format:
www.stata-press.com/data/r18/d.html
Old format:
stats.oarc.ucla.edu/stata/examples/chp/regression-analysis-by-example-third-editionby-chatterjee-hadi-pricedata-files/
www.principlesofeconometrics.com/stata.htm
