diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
index 4aee6f72b1d53..e2e8ddcc47271 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.0.txt
@@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ Other enhancements
 
 
 
-
-
 .. _whatsnew_0200.api_breaking:
 
 Backwards incompatible API changes
@@ -82,3 +80,5 @@ Performance Improvements
 Bug Fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
+`read_stata` can now handle some format 111 files, which are produced
+by SAS when generating Stata dta files (:issue:11526, :issue:14159)
diff --git a/pandas/io/stata.py b/pandas/io/stata.py
index 25f13048a73fd..985ea9c051505 100644
--- a/pandas/io/stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/stata.py
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
 from pandas.tslib import NaT, Timestamp
 
 _version_error = ("Version of given Stata file is not 104, 105, 108, "
-                  "113 (Stata 8/9), 114 (Stata 10/11), 115 (Stata 12), "
-                  "117 (Stata 13), or 118 (Stata 14)")
+                  "111 (Stata 7SE), 113 (Stata 8/9), 114 (Stata 10/11), "
+                  "115 (Stata 12), 117 (Stata 13), or 118 (Stata 14)")
 
 _statafile_processing_params1 = """\
 convert_dates : boolean, defaults to True
@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ def _get_seek_variable_labels(self):
 
     def _read_old_header(self, first_char):
         self.format_version = struct.unpack('b', first_char)[0]
-        if self.format_version not in [104, 105, 108, 113, 114, 115]:
+        if self.format_version not in [104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114, 115]:
             raise ValueError(_version_error)
         self.byteorder = struct.unpack('b', self.path_or_buf.read(1))[
             0] == 0x1 and '>' or '<'
diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/data/stata7_111.dta b/pandas/io/tests/data/stata7_111.dta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e87fa3a72ff8e
Binary files /dev/null and b/pandas/io/tests/data/stata7_111.dta differ
diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
index 7752fff5247c0..1849b32a4a7c8 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ def setUp(self):
         self.dta22_118 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata14_118.dta')
         self.dta23 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata15.dta')
 
+        self.dta24_111 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata7_111.dta')
+
     def read_dta(self, file):
         # Legacy default reader configuration
         return read_stata(file, convert_dates=True)
@@ -1219,6 +1221,20 @@ def test_repeated_column_labels(self):
             read_stata(self.dta23, convert_categoricals=True)
             tm.assertTrue('wolof' in cm.exception)
 
+    def test_stata_111(self):
+        # 111 is an old version but still used by current versions of
+        # SAS when exporting to Stata format. We do not know of any
+        # on-line documentation for this version.
+        df = read_stata(self.dta24_111)
+        original = pd.DataFrame({'y': [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, np.NaN, 0, 0],
+                                 'x': [1, 2, 1, 3, np.NaN, 4, 3, 5, 1, 6],
+                                 'w': [2, np.NaN, 5, 2, 4, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3],
+                                 'z': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', '', 'g', 'h',
+                                       'i', 'j']})
+        original = original[['y', 'x', 'w', 'z']]
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(original, df)
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     nose.runmodule(argv=[__file__, '-vvs', '-x', '--pdb', '--pdb-failure'],
                    exit=False)