[Limdep Nlogit List] Data importing issue "please help"

[Barry Quinn]

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Hi,



I have been trying for a long time to import data but, with little complete success.



1)      When using a .xls format Limdep ALWAYS gives message “NLOGIT has encountered a problem and needs to close”

2)      When using .txt or .csv files and going through the command window using the following command

Read ; Nobs=2519 ;Nvar=82 ;names=marka,id,DV,year,t,neglng1,lng2,lng3,lng4,lng5,lnx1,lnx2,lnx3

,lnb,lnbd,lng2sq,lng3sq,lng4sq,lng5sq,lnx1sq,lnx2sq,lnx3sq,lnbsq,lnbdsq,lng2lng3,lng2lng4,

lng2lng5,lng3lng4,lng3lng5,lng4lng5,lng2lnx1,lng2lnx2,lng2lnx3,lng3lnx1,lng3lnx2,lng3lnx3,

lng4lnx1,lng4lnx2,lng4lnx3,lng5lnx1,lng5lnx2,lng5lnx3,lng2lnb,lng3lnb,lng4lnb,lng5lnb,

lng2lnbd,lng3lnbd,lng4lnbd,lng5lnbd,lnx1lnx2,lnx1lnx3,lnx1lnb,lnx1lnbd,lnx2lnx3,lnx2lnb,

lnx2lnbd,lnx3lnb,lnx3lnbd,t1,t2,t3,t4,t5,t6,t7,lnta,a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,roa,roe,CI,emps,brhs,offBS

;file="C:\Documents and Settings\Barry\My Documents\My Dropbox\cooperative banks\limdep.txt"$



Received this output message

“Last observation read from data file was    2503”

or for .csv “Last observation read from data file was    2504”




The data set has been created in stata and exported to excel then saved in the required format.


Why would Limdep not read all the observations??? The data set has no missing values and there is no string or text data  included!



I would really appreciated any advice you can give....



Kind regards



Barry Quinn