pandas.DataFrame.to_stata¶
Export DataFrame object to Stata dta format.
Writes the DataFrame to a Stata dataset file. “dta” files contain a Stata dataset.
- param fname
- str, buffer or path object
String, path object (pathlib.Path or py._path.local.LocalPath) or object implementing a binary write() function. If using a buffer then the buffer will not be automatically closed after the file data has been written.
- param convert_dates
- dict
Dictionary mapping columns containing datetime types to stata internal format to use when writing the dates. Options are ‘tc’, ‘td’, ‘tm’, ‘tw’, ‘th’, ‘tq’, ‘ty’. Column can be either an integer or a name. Datetime columns that do not have a conversion type specified will be converted to ‘tc’. Raises NotImplementedError if a datetime column has timezone information.
- param write_index
- bool
Write the index to Stata dataset.
- param encoding
- str
Default is latin-1. Unicode is not supported.
- param byteorder
- str
Can be “>”, “<”, “little”, or “big”. default is sys.byteorder.
- param time_stamp
- datetime
A datetime to use as file creation date. Default is the current time.
- param data_label
- str, optional
A label for the data set. Must be 80 characters or smaller.
- param variable_labels
- dict
Dictionary containing columns as keys and variable labels as values. Each label must be 80 characters or smaller.
New in version 0.19.0.
- param version
- {114, 117}, default 114
Version to use in the output dta file. Version 114 can be used read by Stata 10 and later. Version 117 can be read by Stata 13 or later. Version 114 limits string variables to 244 characters or fewer while 117 allows strings with lengths up to 2,000,000 characters.
New in version 0.23.0.
- param convert_strl
- list, optional
List of column names to convert to string columns to Stata StrL format. Only available if version is 117. Storing strings in the StrL format can produce smaller dta files if strings have more than 8 characters and values are repeated.
New in version 0.23.0.
- raises
- NotImplementedError
If datetimes contain timezone information
- Column dtype is not representable in Stata
ValueError
- Columns listed in convert_dates are neither datetime64[ns]
or datetime.datetime
Column listed in convert_dates is not in DataFrame
Categorical label contains more than 32,000 characters
New in version 0.19.0.
Warning
This feature is currently unsupported by Intel Scalable Dataframe Compiler