Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

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Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby economics_student1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:16 am

Hello,

I have an unbalanced data set I'd like to import into Eviews from Excel. However I am having trouble getting Eviews to recognise my data properly.

The Dataset consists of around 29000 observations, and has an idcode for every individual. From 1968 - 1988 each individual was interviewed a different number of times, rendering my panel data unbalanced.

Is anybody able to help me with this? The dataset in excel is attached.

Many Thanks

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Re: Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby EViews Gareth » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:41 am

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Re: Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby economics_student1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:49 am

Sorry, here we go!

Thanks.
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Panel dataset 29000 Obs.
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Re: Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby EViews Gareth » Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:05 am

If I drag that file on to EViews, it automatically detects the panel structure without me needing to do anything. Just clicking "Finish" works.
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Re: Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby economics_student1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:14 am

Hello,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I ended up with the following on Eviews, and it looks like it has recognised the panel data!

I take it as I am ready to start creating dummy variables for my years, and running my regressions.

Thank you so much!
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Re: Importing Unbalanced Data From Execl

Postby economics_student1 » Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:15 am

And the following for the years variable
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