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Fetch argument for point estimates?

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:54 pm
by chester
I'd like to fetch data from an EViews database but for frequency conversion, I'd like to use point estimates.
For example in a particular series, when converting from high (quarterly) frequency to low (annual) frequency, I want to use quarter 3 values as the data points when converting it into an annual series. Is there an argument that I can use along with 'setconvert' in order to achieve this?

Re: Fetch argument for point estimates?

Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:01 pm
by EViews Gareth
Use c=l on fetch.

Re: Fetch argument for point estimates?

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 7:23 am
by chester
Sorry I may have phrased that incorrectly. My data is complete from 1950 Quarter 1 to 2015 Quarter 4.
I'd like to override the fetch command and use quarter 3 of every year as the annual data points.
For example, 1992 Quarter 3 would be used as the 1992 data point in the annual workfile.

Re: Fetch argument for point estimates?

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 8:21 am
by EViews Gareth
Ah, that can't be done. You'd need to fetch into a quarterly page, then copy to the annual

Re: Fetch argument for point estimates?

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 11:13 am
by chester
Okay, thanks. Thats good to know.