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EViews-CEIC Interface - Quick Start Guide 
 
 
1. What You Will Need 
 
i. Any version of CEIC Data Manager (CDM). 
ii. Your CDM user name and password. 
iii. Your CEIC customer support to have enabled “CEIC EViews Interface” for you. 
iv. EViews 7 Enterprise Edition 
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v. EViews serial number. 
vi. CEIC-EViews Interface software 
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Install Eviews 7 Enterprise Edition from Eviews: 
http://www.eviews.com 
 
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Install CEIC-EViews Interface software from CEIC Downloads Area: 
http://www.ceicdata.com/client/downloads 
 
 
2. Opening the CEIC Databases from EViews 
 
A. Via The User Interface 
 
⇒ Open EViews 7 
⇒ Select File > Open > Database 
 
 
 
 
⇒ Select CEIC Database and enter your existing CDM user name and password 
 
(To save time opening the CEIC databases, see Using The EViews Database Registry below.) 
 
 
 
 
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Enter CDM user name and password 
 
 
B. Via The Command Window or a Program 
 
⇒ Open EViews 7 
⇒ Type dbopen(t=ceic, u=username, p=password) 
 
Or, if the database is already in the Database Registry (see Using The EViews Database Registry below) 
 
⇒ type dbopen my_database_alias 
 
 
Routes A and B will both open the query dialog window shown below. 
 
⇒ Use Query-Select to perform a new query or Query AppendSelect to add to a current query. 
 
 
Query-Select and Query AppendSelect 
 
 
 
 
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The CEIC Data Tree and Search tool will open. Note the two tabs – Tree and Search. 
 
 
 
 
3. Selecting Series and Importing to EViews 
 
A. Via The User Interface 
 
You will be familiar with the tree layout and basic search UI from CDM. 
 
⇒ Use Tree and Search to locate and check the series you wish to use in EViews, and then click the 
Import to EViews button. The EViews database window will open. 
 
 
 
 
EViews Database Window 
 
⇒ In the database window, use Ctrl to select series for export, and click the Export button. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Export Button 
 
 
 
 
You will be prompted for the EViews 
destination workfile (see right image). 
 
Note that if you have not subscribed to 
some of the series that you try to export, 
you will receive an error message. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
If a workfile is not currently open, you can 
create a new one. If the frequency of the series 
does not match the frequency of the 
destination workfile, EViews will perform the 
frequency conversion for you. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Create EViews Workfile
Note on CEIC series codes: In CDM data series are associated with a unique numeric code 
(e.g. 130004908), and sometimes also an alphabetic code (e.g. CABBA). When you import 
CEIC series to EViews the interface exposes a third code type starting in SR (e.g. sr3310915). 
You can see these codes in the Export Button image above. You will need to use these “sr” 
codes in EViews fetch commands. 
 
 
B. Via The Command Window or a Program 
 
To select series via the command window or a program you need to know their “sr” codes. 
 
⇒ Type fetch “sr” code, e.g. fetch sr3310915 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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In general the EViews command window, programs and other functionality can be used to avoid 
repetitive retrieval of CEIC series via Tree and Search. For example, create Q 2000 2012, dbopen 
CEIC and fetch sr3549979 will create a quarterly workfile, open the CEIC Database (if “CEIC” is your 
database alias) and fetch GDP Canada. 
 
 
4. Support 
 
The EViews-CEIC Interface is software developed by CEIC Data. Your CEIC customer service 
representative is your support contact. Note that your CEIC support representative is not expert on 
the EViews 7 software itself. 
 
Note - Using The EViews Database Registry 
 
You can save time opening the CEIC databases by saving your CDM user name and password in the 
EViews Database Registry. 
 
⇒ In EViews select Options > Database Registry 
 
 
 
⇒ Click Add new entry, and then CEIC Database from the Database / File Type drop-down. 
 
 
 
 
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⇒ Create a database alias, and fill in your CDM user-name and password. Click OK. 
 
 
 
 
⇒ Click OK in the Database Registry window.