starting date in the middle of a time series

[Ynwe]

Hey! I have a time series going from 1980-2013. One of the variables should have a starting point in 1988. Its basically a law change. So the variable should be "X years since Law Y was passed" How would I put that into eviews? Just leave he 1980-87 years as NA, and than the rest just begin counting up?

[EViews Gareth]

If you want the pre-1988 years to be NA, then yes, enter them as NA.

To create such a series you can use:

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series yrssince88 = @recode(@year>1987, @year-1988, na)


[Ynwe]

If you want the pre-1988 years to be NA, then yes, enter them as NA.

To create such a series you can use:

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series yrssince88 = @recode(@year>1987, @year-1988, na)


wait, never coded in Eviews. I go to object create a new object and call it time, where do I enter that code than?

[EViews Gareth]

Just type that command into the EViews command window

[Ynwe]

whoops, this is what you get whenn you always minimize the command window. thank you very much!