GH ref

Author: jbrockmendel

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.0.rst

@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ Other enhancements
 - :func:`read_spss` now returns a :class:`DataFrame` that stores the metadata in :attr:`DataFrame.attrs` (:issue:`54264`)
 - :func:`tseries.api.guess_datetime_format` is now part of the public API (:issue:`54727`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.apply` now allows the usage of numba (via ``engine="numba"``) to JIT compile the passed function, allowing for potential speedups (:issue:`54666`)
+- :func:`read_stata` now returns ``datetime64`` resolutions better matching those natively stored in the stata format (:issue:`55642`)
 - :meth:`ExtensionArray._explode` interface method added to allow extension type implementations of the ``explode`` method (:issue:`54833`)
 - :meth:`ExtensionArray.duplicated` added to allow extension type implementations of the ``duplicated`` method (:issue:`55255`)
 - :meth:`Series.ffill`, :meth:`Series.bfill`, :meth:`DataFrame.ffill`, and :meth:`DataFrame.bfill` have gained the argument ``limit_area``; 3rd party :class:`.ExtensionArray` authors need to add this argument to the method ``_pad_or_backfill`` (:issue:`56492`)