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I attached an Excel File of what the final file should look like (I put only part of the data). As I said in my first post, the first column is the company key (individual). The frequency of data is quarterly, from 1991 Q1 to 2013 Q1. I specified the year and the quarter in separate columns, as well...

Hi, I downloaded a rather large Excel file from COMPUSTAT, with panel data from a large number of companies. I succeeded loading these data in RATSDATA (Trial version 8.3), however I have a few problems when reading data : Problem 1 : The panel is unbalanced, which means the individuals have a diffe...