I have a dataset with 4600 observations of 3500 variables. The .xlsx file is 90 MB and the .csv version of it is 75 MB.

I'm currently running Stata 13 IC, which has served me fine in the past. I'm running into an issue here trying to import my data, however, since the maximum amount of variables in Stata IC is 2048. I also ran into issues with the maximum import size for .xlsx files being 40 MB.

I'm thinking about purchasing Stata 16 SE to allow me to work with this bigger data. I just wanted to check with people here to make sure Stata 16 SE would handle my dataset, at least in .csv format; is this correct? Would it handle that dataset in .xlsx format?