DTA

File Format
Name	DTA
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Scientific Data formats‏‎ DTA
Extension(s)	.dta

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.

stata.py

Identification

Modern DTA files are some kind of binary XML files and start with the <stata_dta> tag.

Sample files

stata-press, new format

ucla, old format

Principles of econometrics, old format