What is a .DTA file?
DTA is a Stata statistics data file, common in economics research.
- Did you know
- Stata, launched in 1985, is a favourite statistics package in economics.
- A .dta is Stata’s proprietary binary format, designed to read identically on Windows, Mac and Unix machines.
- Beyond the raw numbers it stores variable and value labels, so categories like “1 = male” carry their meaning.
- What Analyser reads
- Open scientific, medical and engineering files: DICOM scans, NIfTI brain volumes, Garmin FIT/TCX activities, FITS astronomy frames, FASTA/FASTQ sequences, chemistry structures (MOL/SDF/MOL2/CIF/XYZ), Gerber/Excellon PCB data, SPICE netlists, EDF/BDF biosignals, JCAMP-DX spectra, SPSS/Stata/SAS datasets and VTK/ParaView meshes - metadata extracted entirely in-browser.
- Depth of analysis
- .DTA is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .DTA file
- Drag a .DTA file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.