Hi Thank you for your comments. I may have selected the wrong program from www.nber.org/data/hcris.html to illustrate my question. I open the SAS files of annual dta and copy/paste into Excel where I create very simply metrics e.x., rates of increase, profit margins, etc. I found all the data I wanted from 1996-2006. From 2007 forward, they created annual files but excluded the 5 or so columns that I have been working with. Hence the need to extract the data for 2007 to 2010. I will be happy when I am over this hump, one way or another. Al
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