statsmodels/statsmodels — Issue #119: StataReader doesn't proper handle ints
Author: jseabold
Created: 2011-12-07 01:14:09+00:00
State: open

I need to check the details, but IIRC if StataReader doesn't know how to handle a variable, it casts it to a string. This was mainly a way to kick Stata date handling down the road. However, it looks like it might not know what to do with ints either. Consider the following using the webuse function. https://gist.github.com/1399100

{{{
dta = webuse('auto')
dta['weight'].dtype
}}}