# ReadStatTables, type conversion

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readstattables-type-conversion/119270
**Category:** Data
**Created:** [September 11, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readstattables-type-conversion/119270 "2024-09-11T08:34:12Z")
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#### Post date: [September 11, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/readstattables-type-conversion/119270/1 "2024-09-11T08:34:12Z")

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My .dta (STATA) file has some columns as Float32, others as Int8, etc. Especially the Int8 casuses lots of problems in the code, so they must be converted to Int64. Is there a simple way of telling `readstat()` to do that? (I prefer not to create a df.)