Yet another excel-panel data question!
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:23 am
I have been using Eviews for years, but have only recently started working with large panel datasets. I am having a hard time figuring out a simple way to arrange an excel worksheet into the correct format for importing into Eviews for a panel data analysis. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The data looks like this:
i.e., data on Liabilities(Ls), Borrowings(Bgs), assets(Gfa), for 2 Companies (Corporations!) for 2001('01) & 2002('02) .
Please excuse me if this qs. has been asked/answered earlier- I am new to this forum. But I think others might also have encountered this problem, and this is the usual format for a database I will need to use a lot. (There is very probably a way with Pool objects etc, but I am not familiar with that at all :))
Code: Select all
Company ’01 ‘01 ‘01 ‘02 ‘02 ‘02
_______ Ls Bgs Gfa Ls Bgs Gfa
Acrow 12 1.07 11.3 1.42 12.01 1.29
Bcrox 15 2.3 26 3 22 5
i.e., data on Liabilities(Ls), Borrowings(Bgs), assets(Gfa), for 2 Companies (Corporations!) for 2001('01) & 2002('02) .
Please excuse me if this qs. has been asked/answered earlier- I am new to this forum. But I think others might also have encountered this problem, and this is the usual format for a database I will need to use a lot. (There is very probably a way with Pool objects etc, but I am not familiar with that at all :))