Panel data import

[Elenia]

Hello,
My question might sound stupid but I just started working with Eviews and some things are not that obvious to me.
I have panel data and when I import data from excel file I get question about date series - and I type 'week' and that's obviously wrong since eviews doesn't let me continue with that. What should i type then? What i have is weekly sales and price promotion information for 5 products (for each product there are 261 weekly observations; total number of observations is 1305). Also I don't really understand what am I suppose to specify in cross section ID series: if I want to regress sales as a function of price and other variables, should I type sales or what?
Thanks in advance for any help!

[EViews Gareth]

Hard to tell you how to import the data without knowing how the data look in Excel.

[Elenia]

It looks like this (where D is number of the week, dummy variable). I can also attach excel file if needed.
Thank you!

[EViews Gareth]

Attach the Excel file.

[Elenia]

Here it is.

[EViews Gareth]

Just open the file in EViews, accepting the default settings, then hit Proc->Structure/Resize Current Page, change the type to dated panel, enter "week" as the date series, and "product" as the cross-section.

[Elenia]

Thanks a lot for your help, but Eviews still doesnt let me type 'Week' in dated panel

[EViews Gareth]

Which version of EViews?

[Elenia]

Eviews 7

[EViews Gareth]

http://www.eviews.com/Forum_support/Wee ... _panel.htm

[Elenia]

Thanks a lot! And sorry for taking so much of your time.