I'm using the latest version of EViews 11, obtained an API key from Census, and followed the instructions here:
https://eviews.com/help/helpintro.html#page/content%2Fdatabase-Foreign_Format_Databases.html%23ww187991
Although I am able to connect, I get a Census Database Error when I click the Browse button:
Census Database Error
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Re: Census Database Error
There are a few things you can try in order to identify the reason you cannot connect to the database:
1. Open the US Census database from EViews. On the database window click View->Preferences.
Make sure you can see the correct key you received from US Census.
2. Open a browser window (IE, Chrome, ..) and try :
https://api.census.gov/data.json?key=YOUR-API-KEY
Do you receive results or do you get an error?
3. Are you using a proxy server?
1. Open the US Census database from EViews. On the database window click View->Preferences.
Make sure you can see the correct key you received from US Census.
2. Open a browser window (IE, Chrome, ..) and try :
https://api.census.gov/data.json?key=YOUR-API-KEY
Do you receive results or do you get an error?
3. Are you using a proxy server?
Re: Census Database Error
Thanks for the suggestions. It looks like the proxy server setting was being parsed incorrectly. Once I removed the http:// from the front of it, everything worked fine. Note that it works fine with the http:// there for updates and connecting to some types of databases, but the it seems to break for the API types (Census, BLS, BEA, etc.).
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