diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index 5487dc19338da..102abf4be187c 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         -i "pandas.errors.ValueLabelTypeMismatch SA01" \
         -i "pandas.infer_freq SA01" \
         -i "pandas.io.json.build_table_schema PR07,RT03,SA01" \
-        -i "pandas.io.stata.StataReader.value_labels RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.io.stata.StataReader.variable_labels RT03,SA01" \
         -i "pandas.io.stata.StataWriter.write_file SA01" \
         -i "pandas.json_normalize RT03,SA01" \
diff --git a/pandas/io/stata.py b/pandas/io/stata.py
index 6b988d8fed6bf..f1d289726c9c8 100644
--- a/pandas/io/stata.py
+++ b/pandas/io/stata.py
@@ -2076,9 +2076,19 @@ def value_labels(self) -> dict[str, dict[int, str]]:
         """
         Return a nested dict associating each variable name to its value and label.
 
+        This method retrieves the value labels from a Stata file. Value labels are
+        mappings between the coded values and their corresponding descriptive labels
+        in a Stata dataset.
+
         Returns
         -------
         dict
+            A python dictionary.
+
+        See Also
+        --------
+        read_stata : Read Stata file into DataFrame.
+        DataFrame.to_stata : Export DataFrame object to Stata dta format.
 
         Examples
         --------