Unable to open .dta files because of version

Question

Version of given Stata file is 44. pandas supports importing versions 105, 108, 111 (Stata 7SE), 113 (Stata 8/9), 114 (Stata 10/11), 115 (Stata 12), 117 (Stata 13), 118 (Stata 14/15/16),and 119 (Stata 15/16, over 32,767 variables).

import pandas as pd
Citations2 = pd.io.stata.read_stata('Citations_2000-2010 part 2.dta')

I want to convert this file into csv.

Answer 1

Install pyreadstat

# pip install pyreadstat
import pyreadstat

df, meta = pyreadstat.read_dta('Citations_2000-2010 part 2.dta')

df.to_csv('Citations_2000-2010 part 2.csv', index=None)

Details:

>>> df.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 13569764 entries, 0 to 13569763
Data columns (total 8 columns):
 #   Column       Dtype  
---  ------       -----  
 0   patent       int64  
 1   citation     float64
 2   cit_date     object 
 3   cit_name     object 
 4   cit_kind     object 
 5   cit_country  object 
 6   category     object 
 7   citseq       object 
dtypes: float64(1), int64(1), object(6)
memory usage: 828.2+ MB