Am 12.04.2014 17:17, schrieb Logan Kelly:
Hello,
I have a quick question about haw gretl handles data imported from the
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?
I think some time ago I may have mentioned this type of data arrangement
to Allin, but I didn't know (or had forgotten) that he apparently solved
the problem. You seem to have answered your question yourself, if
dropping the rows is what happens. Verifying this shouldn't be too hard
with your dataset.
As to the "bad form": If this is known and intended behavior by gretl, I
don't see why you shouldn't take advantage of it and use it.
-sven