# pandas.io.stata.StataReader.data

`StataReader.``data`(**kwargs)

  Reads observations from Stata file, converting them into a dataframe

  > Deprecated since version This: is a legacy method. Use read in new code.

  Parameters:

  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

  index_col : string, optional, default: None

  > Column to set as index

  convert_missing : boolean, defaults to False

  > Flag indicating whether to convert missing values to their Stata representations. If False, missing values are replaced with nan. If True, columns containing missing values are returned with object data types and missing values are represented by StataMissingValue objects.

  preserve_dtypes : boolean, defaults to True

  > Preserve Stata datatypes. If False, numeric data are upcast to pandas default types for foreign data (float64 or int64)

  columns : list or None

  > Columns to retain. Columns will be returned in the given order. None returns all columns

  order_categoricals : boolean, defaults to True

  > Flag indicating whether converted categorical data are ordered.

  Returns: | DataFrame

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