Importing Stata files
Here, you'll gain expertise in
importing Stata files as DataFrames using the
pd.read_stata()
function from pandas
.
The last exercise's file, 'disarea.dta'
, is still
in your working directory.
This is a part of the course
“Introduction to Importing Data in Python”
Exercise instructions
- Use
pd.read_stata()
to load the file'disarea.dta'
into the DataFramedf
. - Print the head of the DataFrame
df
. - Visualize your results by plotting a histogram of the column
disa10
. We’ve already provided this code for you, so just run it!
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import pandas
import pandas as pd
# Load Stata file into a pandas DataFrame: df
# Print the head of the DataFrame df
# Plot histogram of one column of the DataFrame
pd.DataFrame.hist(df[['disa10']])
plt.xlabel('Extent of disease')
plt.ylabel('Number of countries')
plt.show()