Help! I have the attached quarterly employment data, I need a method that matches the results from someone else's eviews conversion. I need the middle observation month to equal the quarterly value and the average of all 3 months in the quarter to average to the middle value. I tried changing the months to 2,5,7 and 11 and that didn't work. where am I going wrong?
thanks
proc expand data=have out=temp1 from=qtr to=month;
id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=middle; run;
proc expand data=have out=temp2 from=qtr to=month;
id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=(mi,average); run;
proc expand data=have out=temp4 from=qtr to=month;
id date; convert employmentqrtr / observed=(middle) transformout=(movave 3); run;
proc expand data=have out=temp4 from=qtr to=month;
id date; convert employmentqrtr /TRANSFORMIN=( / 3 ) OBSERVED=average ; run;