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Hello, together I am a new Eviews user and have a problem to adjust my data for seasonality

I downloaded quarterly PPP data and want to adjust them for seasonality.

When ever I run the X12 Census Test with default options I get the error message:
"x12 has returned an error message. Check the error message and rerun."

I neither know how to find the error message nor how to solve the problem. I appreciate your help. Thanks!



I am using eviews 7 on windows xp.
On the internet I just found out problems withj older versions of eviews

Could you upload your workfile?

Sure. You find the workfile attached. Thanks in advance!

The series of interest are all seasonally adjusted by using the X12 Census method (with default settings). I did not see any errors....

Thanks a lot! Is it possible that it is a compatibility bug between eviews7 and Windows XP. I found the same problem on th internet with eviews 4 and 5 (http://www.eviews.com/download/older/censusx12.html). Unfortunately I do not have admin right on this computer that I was not able to install the patch.

Hello

I used log of values and now I have negative values in the series I want to use X12 seasonal adjustment. How can I go around this issue? :eviews6:

anyone helping me will be highly appreciated

Thanks

hi
i`m trying to do seasonal adjustment for quarterly data but it has an error message: the following x-13 output files couldn`t be found(SEATS may have detected no seasonality): D11.
also when i use x-12, it has an error message:you can`t run census x-11/x-12 from a shared directory which has spaces in its name.
please help me, i don`t know what`s the problem

Hello,

Regarding X-12, based on that error message I suspect that the default temporary directory location being used to execute X-12 is incompatible with X-12's limitations. Try changing the EViews setting for that location to something without spaces. The setting can be found in Options -> General Options... -> File locations -> Temp File Path.

Regarding X-13, that same temporary directory location will hold the files generated by X-13. There should be a file ending with ".err" (I believe the default name is "EVX13TMP.err") that is a simple text file containing any error messages generated by X-13. It may contain more clues about what has gone wrong.