Convert a dta file to csv without Stata software

Question

Is there a way to convert a dta file to a csv?

I do not have a version of Stata installed on my computer, so I cannot do something like: <

Answer 1

I have not tried, but if you know Perl you can use the Parse-Stata-DtaReader module to convert the file for you.

The module has a command-line tool dta2csv, which can "convert Stata 8 and Stata 10 .dta files to csv"