CONVERTANYTHING: Stata module to multi-format importer and converter for Stata

Eric Booth

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: Walks a file or a whole directory tree and converts every Stata-friendly format it finds (csv, xlsx, xls, and more) into .dta, mirroring the source tree, optionally importing every worksheet, cleaning variable names, and compressing. Turns a shared-drive drop of mixed formats into one clean set of datasets in a single pass.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 16
Keywords: data management; file conversion; import; Excel; CSV (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-07-30
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install convertanything". The module is made available under terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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