Exporting DTA File Using pandas.DataFrame.to_stata() function in Python

This method is used to writes the DataFrame to a Stata dataset file. “dta” files contain a Stata dataset. DTA file is a database file and it is used by IWIS Chain Engineering. 

Syntax : DataFrame.to_stata(path, convert_dates=None, write_index=True, time_stamp=None)

Parameters :

• path : str, buffer or path object
• convert_dates : dict
• write_index : bool
• time_stamp : datetime

Returns : DataFrame object to Stata dta format. Means return .dta file.

Example 1: Create DTA file

Here we will create dataframe and then saving into the DTA format using DataFrame.to_stata().

Python3

# importing package
import numpy
import pandas as pd

# create and view data
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'person': ["Rakesh", "Kishan", "Adesh", "Nitish"],
    'weight': [50, 60, 70, 80]
})
display(df)

# use pandas.DataFrame.to_stata method
# to extract .dta file
df.to_stata('person.dta')

Output :

Example 2:

Python3

# importing package
import pandas as pd

# create and view data
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'mobiles': ["Apple", "MI", "Karban", "JIO"],
    'prizes': [75000, 9999, 6999, 5999]
})
display(df)

# use pandas.DataFrame.to_stata method
# to extract .dta file
df.to_stata('mobiles.dta')

Output :