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Thanks, but it doesn't appear to be working on the series I'm applying them too. The code always returns 0 no matter the value I put in between quotation marks ("mil", "Mil", "MIL"). I'm attaching the workfile containing a sample of the series I have, and the list of se...

Hi, I'm d owloading a large number of data series from Haver in E-views, some of which are in million, some are in billions. This is indicated in the series description (for example: "Anguilla: Stock of Domestic Credit (Mil.XCD)". In my program, I need everything to be in billions to calcu...

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Hi, Thanks all for this information. I am a bit puzzled however as to how to use the "start" and "end" strings within a smpl command. All of the following returned an "Error in sample. Illegal date" message. My workfile uses annual data by the way. smpl start @last smpl...

Hi,
I would like ot know if there's a way that Eviews can import data that is in reverse chronological order in Excel? The data is a regular weekly time series, in columns, with the last value appearing first. Dates are in column A, data in column B.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Gareth, Do you mean the workfiles of the programs? I found a quick fix in the meanwhile: smpl if a1 = na (a1 contains data from 1986 to 2010 so smpl becomes 1980-1985 and 2011-2015) a1 = a2 smpl if a1 = na (a2 contains data for 1980-1985 so smpl becomes 2011-2015 only) a1 = a1(-1) (smpl become em...

Hello, In 2 separate workfiles where I use an if statement within the smpl command (ie: smpl if a1 = na). In both cases, I use this command to identify data holes in my time series and fill them in. In one workfile, the sample size updates automatically after filling in the holes with data, while th...