Access to Financial and Economic Databases
The DATASOURCE procedure provides a convenient way to read
time series data from data files supplied by a variety of
different commercial and governmental data vendors.
The DATASOURCE procedure includes the following features:
- support for data files distributed by the following data vendors:
- DRI/McGraw-Hill
- FAME Information Services
- Haver Analytics
- Standard & Poors Compustat Service
- Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
- International Monetary Fund
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- ability to select the series, time range, and cross sections
of data extracted
- can create an output data set containing descriptive information
on the series available in the data file
- can read EBCDIC tapes on ASCII systems and vice versa
The CITIBASE procedure provides a convenient way to read
time series from DRI Basic Economic (formerly CITIBASE) data files
and Haver Analytics data files.
The CITIBASE procedure has been superseded by the
DATASOURCE procedure but is supported for compatibility
with previous releases of SAS/ETS software.
The CITIBASE procedure includes the following features:
- reads DRI Basic Economic or Haver Analytics database files
and creates SAS data sets containing
annual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly data series
- reads both tape and diskette format DRI Basic Economic files
- reads EBCDIC tapes on ASCII systems and vice versa
- ability to select the series and the time range read
- optionally creates an output data set containing descriptive information
on the series in the DRI Basic Economic file
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