I am very new with eViews ...
I have setup a panel workfile ... from 1980-2020 ... with 37 observations (countries) ...
so I imported an excel sheet (datasrc_countries) with the list of 37 countries (the list of 37 does not match up with the workfile size = 40x37) ...
now I want to properly assign to each stack within the workfile series COUNTRY, the appropriate country name which comes from the imported series DATASRC_COUNTRY ...
my plan is to iterate through the list of 37, and then apply a @recode based on CROSSID ... I need a way to pull each item from the DATASRC_COUNTRY series ... I tried
and thus get an error: Date does not uniquely define observation in panels in .... I understand that the @elem does not work for panel data.@elem( datasrc_country , @Str( !j ) )
in the eviews.com/help, I do not see a panel-related function to pull elements out ..
- any thoughts?
- thanks, Shannon