Open .dta files online

Open the bundled Stata-format dataset immediately. The file is processed locally in your browser and the demo requires no account.

Tested 2026-08-16 with the current stats.camp development build · View the do-file on GitHub

Open a sample .dta file View supported commands

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Use a DTA file viewer in your browser

To view a Stata-format dataset, load it and inspect its structure before running calculations:

use "data/student_scores.dta", clear
describe
summarize math read write

The bundled button above opens this tested file and do-file together without an account. For a personal dataset, add the file to your own stats.camp project and replace the path; the public sample does not receive or contain your file.

What is a .dta file?

A .dta file is a dataset format used by Stata. Unlike a plain CSV, it can store rows and columns together with variable names, storage types, variable labels, value-label definitions, display formats, and dataset metadata.

stats.camp reads the dataset locally when commands run in the browser. Opening this bundled example does not upload a personal file or require an account.

Try the bundled .dta file

The demo repository includes a 24-row synthetic teaching dataset. The primary button opens the matching do-file and runs this complete workflow:

clear
use "data/student_scores.dta", clear
describe
summarize math read write
list id female race read write math in 1/6

use loads the bundled file, describe shows its structure, and the final commands inspect its values.

Output from the bundled dataset

Contains data from student_scores.dta
 Observations:            24
    Variables:             6
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Variable      Storage   Display    Value
    name         type    format    label      Variable label
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
id              double  %8.0g
female          double  %8.0g
race            double  %8.0g
read            double  %8.0g
write           double  %8.0g
math            double  %8.0g
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Variable |        Obs        Mean   Std. dev.        Min        Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
        math |         24      57.375    7.654567         43         72
        read |         24    56.16667    6.349712         44         68
       write |         23    57.65217     6.69877         46         70

The file contains six variables and 24 observations. The writing variable has 23 observations because one synthetic value is missing.

Open another .dta file

After trying the bundled example, add your own file to a stats.camp project and replace the path in use. Check the number of rows and variables, variable types, labels, missing values, and a few summaries before relying on the data.

.dta is a versioned format, and uncommon metadata or storage types can differ between files. See the maintained command table for current coverage. For CSV data, use the runnable import delimited example.

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Open the bundled .dta example

Open the tested project and its sample .dta file in stats.camp. No upload, installation, or account is required.

Open a sample .dta file