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Hey everyone,

Everytime I try to estimate the equation, a pop-up screen comes up with 'insufficient number of observations'. However I use a panel-data of 21 countries for 17 years (1996-2012). I use the variables fiscal decentralization and unemployment and I want to make a regression equation of unemployment c fd
But it doesn't work.

I hope you can help.

Thanks in advance

You probably don't have enough valid observations. Look at your data.

Thank you for your answer.
Okay, I do not know a log about eviews, but I think all my data is valid so I do not know how I can see wether they might not be valid.

Open a spreadsheet with all the variables in the regression. Then look at each row to see if any are marked NA.

I looked at the variables, however there is never NA, only at the resid, these are all marked as NA. Is this wrong?

You might want to post your workfile, including the equation you wish to estimate.

This is my workfile that I want to use, this is an excel document, but I do not now how to include the workfile, but hopefully this is also useful for you. I want to estimate
unemployment = c fiscal decentralization(-1)

or

unemployment = c fiscal decentralization

But i do not think it matters which one I want to estimate for the insufficient number of observations screen I get.

Thanks in advance

It appears that your fd variable is being brought in as an alpha rather than a series. Convert it to a series using the @val() function.