> BLS. If you download a series from the BLS, say into ms excel, you will
> get years with 5 quarters or 13 months. The Q5, or M13 for monthly data,
> is some annual summary of the data. What is the expected behavior of
> gretl in the case that I import the data without properly removing the
> non-observations, i.e. Q5/M13, from the csv file before importing? When
> I try this experiment in the import output I find
>
> "2001q05": BLS-type nonsense? Trying again
>
> Does gretl drop these rows from the data set? That is what appears to be
> happening. Also, is it terribly bad form to let gretl handle this issue
> rather than removing the rows before import?

gretl grumbles, but it handles such data correctly (drops the offending
rows). If you don't mind the snark there's no need to pre-process BLS
data.

Allin Cottrell
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