[Gretl-devel] Re: new euro area AWM data

On 28/03/2025 18:10, Sven Schreiber wrote: > with a little delay I've become aware of some work that updates the > good old area-wide model dataset. In gretl we currently ship AWM, > AWM17, and AWM18, and then it wasn't updated anymore at the source. > Now there's ˙Ipek and Kısacıko˘glu who offer new data, see https:// > mahmuts.bilkent.edu.tr/ and https://drive.google.com/file/ > d/1WRyq4iX3KIEFogV_xESpBtdrT7cQLk3c/view?usp=sharing. > > I wonder whether we should ask them if we can convert their Excel > file and ship it with gretl in the future. The "downside" is that > they want to update it regularly, so the question is whether it's too > much of a moving target; plus I just tested the import into gretl, > and it works flawlessy, you only need to tell gretl to use the second > (out of three) sheets in the workfile. So in that sense it could be > argued that there isn't much value added in providing it in gretl > format. (Well, from their dataset you don't get the series > descriptions, so that might be some value added.) Here is a gdt version of the dataset, complete with variable descriptions and a placeholder for the dataset info. However, as the authors explain in the paper, four of the series (CAN_YEN, NFN_YEN, YWD and YWDX) could not be updated, and only contain NAs, so I wonder if it's worthwhile to supply those at all. Maybe we could get in touch with these guys.