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Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:15 pm**

I'm trying to restructure a page using year and month series. However, it only seems to work if there are 12 months.

For example, the following code with 12 observations seems to work

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wfcreate u 12
genr year = 2015
genr month = @obsid
pagestruct @date(year, month)

But if I only have 9 observations (i.e. Jan-Sep), I get an error saying "Unable to interpret date specification"

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pagecreate u 9
genr year = 2016
genr month = @obsid
pagestruct @date(year, month)

What am I missing here? Is there some option for pagestruct that I should include? I'm using Eviews 9.5, Nov 14 2016 build.

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2016 2:41 pm**

You need one year or more if you want to do it like that.

Alternatively you could make an explicit date series out of your two existing ones and then use that as the structure.

Posted: **Wed Nov 30, 2016 3:22 pm**

Thanks. As you suggest, using an intermediary date series for the pagestruct command works regardless of the number of month observations.

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pagecreate u 9
genr year = 2016
genr month = @obsid
genr dateobs = @makedate(100*year+month,"YYYYMM")
pagestruct @date(dateobs)

It would be nice though if Eviews could recognize the structure of a workfile with less than 12 months.

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